Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Santa Rosa Author

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Oct. 31, 2014 - PRLog -- From Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is

Santa Rosa, by local author Simone Wilson, boasts more than 200 vintage images and provides readers with a unique opportunity to reconnect with the history that shaped their community.

The Santa Rosa Valley, once carpeted in wild oats and littered with acorns from ancient oaks, was home to Pomo and Miwok Indians for thousands of years. The cattle ranches and farms that displaced them in the mid-1800s had already spawned a thriving commercial town named Santa Rosa, the county seat, when the railroad arrived in 1870. That railroad, and the commerce it brought, secured the city's role as the legal and financial nexus of Sonoma County and its most populous city. When many of the downtown buildings collapsed in the famous 1906 earthquake, the community built itself back into a picture-perfect all-American city, the setting for such films as Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt and Disney's Pollyanna. Another devastating quake in 1969 damaged many structures, but once again that destruction prompted redevelopment and renewed growth for Santa Rosa in the 21st century.

Highlights of Santa Rosa include:

·         An historical account of Santa Rosa through time from Indian lands to cattle ranches and farming and into the 21^st century.

·         The 1906 earthquake resulted in a community effort to rebuild its town.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

1900 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95407
When:  Saturday, November 14^th, 2014; 1:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online. (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738596228/Dallas)

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.


Santa Rosa

by Simone Wilson

Images of America series

128 pages/ softcover

Published: June 28, 2004