San Francisco Bay · CA
Petaluma
The old egg capital, at the head of a tidal river.
- Population
- 59,776 (2020 census)
- Incorporated
- 1858
- Egg incubator
- 1879
Then
- 1836
Mariano Vallejo begins the Petaluma Adobe. The name is Coast Miwok, roughly "backside of the hill."
- 1858
Petaluma incorporates. Steamers and scows carry its produce to San Francisco.
- 1879
Lyman Byce invents an egg incubator here.
- 1906
The town comes through the earthquake nearly unharmed and becomes the county's relief base.
Now
The historic downtown is on the National Register, and much of American Graffiti was filmed here. The tidal Petaluma River runs south to San Pablo Bay.