Presidio of Sonoma (Sonoma Barracks)

Sonoma County · Sonoma State Historic Park · location approximate

Sonoma Barracks erected in 1836 by General M. G. Vallejo. Headquarters of Bear Flag Party, which on June 1846 proclaimed a "California Republic" and raised the Bear Flag on Sonoma's Plaza. Twenty-three days later, July 7, 1846, Commodore John Drake Sloat, representing the United States government, took possession of California. In April 1847 Stevenson's Regiment, Company C, U.S.A., occupied the barracks.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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