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The Village at Pine Flat

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The Village at Pine Flat

A hopeful young mining town once was located at Pine Flat in what is now Audubon's Mayacamas Mountain Sanctuary. Robert Evans has unearthed some evocative articles from the contemporary Russian River Flag newspaper, which we'll be printing in the Leaves from time to time. Here is the first:

From the Russian River Flag, March 26, 1874
"J.G. Thompson has been appointed Postmaster at Pine Flat, and the office has been named Dodgeville, because of another Pine Flat in the State. The Thompson brothers are building an addition to their store and will soon have a large stock of goods.

"W.P. Litton & Co., mining brokers, have built a nice office in the new town. The offices of the Missouri Central and Peerless Mining companies will be in the same building. F. Swinney has built a dwelling house and a blacksmith shop; Seawell, Rickman & Swan are soon to put up a slaughter house; Mr. Williams talks of building a large hotel; J.L. Terry has started a saloon; W.C. Graves is erecting a commodious dwelling house; Rev. J. Daubenspeck contemplates...a large brick kiln, and improvements generally is the order of the day."

From the Russian River Flag, March 26, 1874
"Two brothers, Granville and Greenville Thompson, have laid out the town of Pine Flat and are now disposing of lots. They have built a store, a livery stable, a large hotel, and constructed a reservoir on the side hill to supply water to the town by means of pipes. They have also persuaded Uncle Sam to give them a post office and worked zealously to start a Healdsburg to Pine Flat road. At present the only wagon road running to Pine Flat is Foss & Connelly's toll road, extending from Knight's Valley to the Geysers. Good wagon roads connect Pine Flat with many of the mines, as the Rattlesnake, Sonoma, Flagstaff and Socrates, so when the new Sausal Canyon route is opened, Pine Flat will become a focal point for all."