Petaluma's Commemorative Book, titled "Celebrating Petaluma" is a beautiful hard-bound, coffee table book with dust jacket and over 300 photos and images. It features essays and chapters written by Petaluma's favorite authors, original art and images, and beautifully reflects Petaluma's past, present, and future. Priced at $34.95 plus tax, they can be purchased at the Petaluma Visitors Center (also on line at www.petaluma150.com), The Petaluma Community Center, Aurora Colors Gallery, Pelican Art Gallery, Haus Fortuna, Gallery One, The Apple Box, the Chamber of Commerce, Copperfield's Books, and the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum.
This is a chance to test yourself on the early history of Petaluma. All the
answers are in the new book Celebrating Petaluma published by the Petaluma
Sesquicentennial Committee and the Petaluma Visitors Program in honor of the
150th anniversary of Petaluma.
ATTENTION TEACHERS: Individual quizzes do not have to be 100% correct, but overall
scores will be noted. Please have each of the children mark the classroom
box and enter their grade level, school, and teacher name. This is a great
incentive for kids to learn their local history!
Click here to take quiz!
Once you enter your name, you will need to complete the online quiz....you may want to print
it out first, answer the questions and then hop back on the computer! Click here for a printable quiz.
Petaluma’s Early Years Before 1850 (check all that apply)
1. Name the native tribes that lived here originally:
Pomo Miwok Wappo
2. What does the name Petaluma mean?
Proud valley Sloping ridge Flat rock
3. Before the white man came, the Petaluma Valley was also home to
deer and elk valley oak and black oak trees lions bear
4. What peoples came after the native people and first settled in the
Petaluma Valley?
French Spanish Russians Mexicans
5. What killed most of the native people in this area in the early 1800s?
Settlers Small Pox Other natives
6. Who said after seeing the Petaluma Valley, "I have made a visit to
Paradise—the fairest land in all the world. Nothing in all California is
comparable…."
Tom Lockwood Tom Smith Mariano Vallejo
7. Who laid claim to 60,000 acres in the Petaluma Valley and built the first
house?
General Mariano Vallejo Levi Pyburn Tom Bayliss
8. To what missions did the early missionaries try to recruit the native
peoples of Petaluma Valley?
Mission Dolores Mission San Rafael Mission Bodega Mission Solano
9. Who established an elaborate slave trade, buying and selling Native men
and boys on ranchos?
Mexicans Spanish French Russians
10. Who was the last Coast Miwok medicine man in this area?
Comtechal Tom Smith Olamentke
One entry per person please!
