The Quien Family purchased the Glen Oaks Ranch from the Stuart family in 1896, and lived there until 1912.
1898 Reynolds & Proctor Map of the Valley of the Moon.
1877 Thompson map of the Valley of the Moon.
General Vallejo was among the first in Alta California to own a piano.
Sir Francis Drake accepts the greetings of the Miwok at Olompoli in 1579.
The villages of the Original People near the Valley of the Moon.
Mary Frances Kennedy (usually known as “MFK”) Fisher.
Mary Ellen Stuart, for whom Glen Ellen was named.
An early view of the State Home for the Care & Training of Feeble-Minded Children at Eldridge.
Free range cattle at Wildwood, before the fencing of the Los Guilicos land grant.
Joe Miami, mentor to many midcentury winemakers.
John (Juan) Wilson (Huilsons), pioneer owner of the Los Guilicos land grant.
General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo presided over the transitions of Alta California, from the northern frontier of Mexico in 1823 to its admission as the 31st state in 1850.
Hunter S. Thompson, notorious gonzo writer, was deeply influenced by Jack London’s form of imbedded journalism, and so came to live in Glen Ellen early in his career.
The 1840s homestead of Patrick and Charity Roulet, at the headwaters of Asbury Creek. After Patrick’s death Charity married Coleman Asbury.
Charles Justi and the Ellis Octet.
Original diseño for the Los Guilicos land grant.
Martin Eden and his friend Jack London.
Mary Ellen Pleasant, owner of the Beltane Ranch north of Glen Ellen.
The controversial Dr. Charles C. O’Donnell, a significant figure in early Glen Ellen.
Detail from the original diseño for the Petaluma land grant, showing Vallejo’s saw mill at the confluence of the Asbury and Sonoma Creeks.
The Pomo community was internationally known for skill in weaving baskets.
Charles A. Poppe, the first merchant of Glen Ellen.
The NWPRR station established downtown Glen Ellen in 1882.
Jack London
William McPherson Hill established his ranch in the Valley of the Moon in 1851.
Joseph Hooker was stationed in the Valley of the Moon as a Lieutenant Colonel, before he became a general in the Civil War.
During WWII General “Hap” Arnold secretly met with high level staff to plan the war effort at Sobre Vista just south of Glen Ellen, and retired to the area afterwards.
George Watriss, a successful hotelier in New York City, New Orleans, and San Francisco, settled in Sonoma Valley in 1858.
Robert Sylvester de Ropp, a student of P. D. Ouspensky, retired to Sonoma Mountain in 1961, where he began writing books that helped establish the human potential movement.
In 1856 Joshua Chauvet purchased Vallejo’s saw mill, and over the following half century helped develop Glen Ellen as a thriving community.
Original diseño for the Agua Caliente land grant.