Petaluma was growing in both magnitude and importance.

During the 1870s, Petaluma was coming into its own with new buildings and churches.

"Eagle-Eyes" is glad the Press Democrat didn't stop them last night; otherwise he may not have discovered a new feature available on Our

Information Highway

. He immediately woke up "Hammerhead" because he thought the front page article by Nathan Halverson really hit the nail on the head.

The decade of the 1850s saw Petaluma evolve from a small settlement to an official city of over 1500 people. Here are few tidbits of historical information as to how our favorite river town developed over the following ten years, 1860-69.

As Petaluma evolved from a hunters' camp to a village, to a town, and eventually a "city," some additional historical tidbits from the 1850s are -

The City of Petaluma has more parks than the six identified in my blog dated 7-13-08.