Fort Ross and the Sonoma Coast
Kalani, Lyn / Sweedler, Sarah![Fort Ross and the Sonoma Coast](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/202/20292519/CHSBZCOP0320292519.jpg)
The Kashaya Indians made foot trails through the grassy mountain slopes of Sonoma's northern coast for centuries before colonists from the Russian-American Company arrived in 1812. These Russians, the vanguard of European settlement, built Fort Ross from virgin redwood on a bluff overlooking the sea. Although they stayed only 30 years, they left behind a heritage that includes the earliest detailed scientific and ethnographic studies of the ar...