THE RUSSIAN RIVER REACH
TIME LINE
There is space and there is time. I structured this site using space. Each page listed as a destination as one moved east to west. But that structure can be very misleading since nothing happened at the same time. This page will try to put some perspective in a simplified time line.
•8000 BCE - Native Americans discover North America
•1000 - Norse sailors discover North America for Europeans
•1776 - USA becomes a country
1834 - California's first powered sawmill on Mill Creek (Mark West Creek)
•1850 - California becomes a state
1853 - Louis W. Ridenhour buys land on the river
•1860s - The Civil War. Arguments and even fights were common even in California
•1862 - The worst flood in California history, though predating official record keeping
1869 - Forestville established
1871 - The Korbel Bros. buy Anthony McPeak's property to build a sawmill
1871 - Anthony McPeak buys the Hobson Farm and renames it Cosmo Farm
The beginning of the information on this web site
1876 - The railroad is built from Fulton terminating at Korbel Mills
1876 - First Post Office in REACH at Korbel
•1879 - Biggest Russian River flood official record keeping
1882 - Korbel Winery created
1889 - Railroad declares Mirabel Park a picnic ground.
1890 - Original railroad bridge updated with a new iron truss, same wooden piers
1891 - Mirabel Park becomes The Reverie
1894 - Hilton Post Office established, Hilton Resort established
1898 - Summer bridges built across the river at Wall Ford near Mirable Park and near Korbel
•1906 - Northern California Earthquake
1914 - New railroad river bridge over Russian River built of steel and concrete
•1914 - World War I starts
•1918 - World War I ends
•1920 - Prohibition starts
1926 - Cosmo Farm is bought and turned into Hacienda Resort
1926 - Rio Dell Resort created
•1929 - Stock market Crashes. Great Depression begins
1929 - Hollydale Park created
•1933 - Prohibition ends
1935 - Railroad service ends for the Fulton to Monte Rio line
•1935 - Golden Gate Bridge opens
1937 - Russian River railroad bridge converted to one-way automobile by replacing tracks with a flat wooden deck
•1939 - World War II starts
•1945 - World War II ends
1947 - Hollydale Community Club founded
1947 - Former RR bridge made for two-way cars with old 1914 truss
1952 - Adolph Heck buys Korbel
1965 - Mirabel Park dance pavilion is torn down due to fears from the county that it could wash away in a flood
1972 - Russian River Pub built as "Safeway Bob's"
1999 - Mom's Beach becomes a Sonoma County Regional Park
2017 - Skippy's (long abandoned) demolished
•1000 - Norse sailors discover North America for Europeans
•1776 - USA becomes a country
1834 - California's first powered sawmill on Mill Creek (Mark West Creek)
•1850 - California becomes a state
1853 - Louis W. Ridenhour buys land on the river
•1860s - The Civil War. Arguments and even fights were common even in California
•1862 - The worst flood in California history, though predating official record keeping
1869 - Forestville established
1871 - The Korbel Bros. buy Anthony McPeak's property to build a sawmill
1871 - Anthony McPeak buys the Hobson Farm and renames it Cosmo Farm
The beginning of the information on this web site
1876 - The railroad is built from Fulton terminating at Korbel Mills
1876 - First Post Office in REACH at Korbel
•1879 - Biggest Russian River flood official record keeping
1882 - Korbel Winery created
1889 - Railroad declares Mirabel Park a picnic ground.
1890 - Original railroad bridge updated with a new iron truss, same wooden piers
1891 - Mirabel Park becomes The Reverie
1894 - Hilton Post Office established, Hilton Resort established
1898 - Summer bridges built across the river at Wall Ford near Mirable Park and near Korbel
•1906 - Northern California Earthquake
1914 - New railroad river bridge over Russian River built of steel and concrete
•1914 - World War I starts
•1918 - World War I ends
•1920 - Prohibition starts
1926 - Cosmo Farm is bought and turned into Hacienda Resort
1926 - Rio Dell Resort created
•1929 - Stock market Crashes. Great Depression begins
1929 - Hollydale Park created
•1933 - Prohibition ends
1935 - Railroad service ends for the Fulton to Monte Rio line
•1935 - Golden Gate Bridge opens
1937 - Russian River railroad bridge converted to one-way automobile by replacing tracks with a flat wooden deck
•1939 - World War II starts
•1945 - World War II ends
1947 - Hollydale Community Club founded
1947 - Former RR bridge made for two-way cars with old 1914 truss
1952 - Adolph Heck buys Korbel
1965 - Mirabel Park dance pavilion is torn down due to fears from the county that it could wash away in a flood
1972 - Russian River Pub built as "Safeway Bob's"
1999 - Mom's Beach becomes a Sonoma County Regional Park
2017 - Skippy's (long abandoned) demolished