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Dry Creek (Sonoma County, California)

Rivers of Mendocino County, CaliforniaRivers of Northern CaliforniaRivers of Sonoma County, CaliforniaTributaries of the Russian River (California)
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Dry Creek is a 43.0-mile-long (69.2 km) stream in the California counties of Sonoma and Mendocino. It is a tributary of the Russian River, with headwaters in Mendocino County. The Dry Creek Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area.

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Dry Creek (Sonoma County, California)

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Foss Creek

Foss Creek is a rain-fed watercourse in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is considered a tributary of the Russian River.Foss Creek traverses the city of Healdsburg, from north to south, originating near Passalacqua Road and flowing into Dry Creek near the U.S. 101 Central Healdsburg interchange. The creek features a number of street and railway crossings (the railroad roughly follows parallel to the waterway’s contours, falling into the creek in disrepair at some points) and carries run-off from the city, ameliorating the risk of flooding during heavy rainfall. In places, the creek runs under the city’s Healdsburg Avenue. The waterway also passes two notable Sonoma County wine production centres: the Simi Winery and the Seghesio Winery. Al Foss was an aeronautics engineer, he lived in Yorba Linda, CA but would spend the summers at his hotel/bar/river guiding business in Orleans outside of Happy Camp on the Klamath River. He re-introduced steelhead trout to a portion of the river and they named it after him, the Foss Riffles, as well as Foss Creek. Several sensitive wetland areas bound the creek. These are the subject of several conservation and restoration programmes. The Foss Creek Community Restoration Project aims to restore native plants to the creek and its surrounding areas, removing large amounts of invasive, non-native plants in order to improve the local wildlife habitat.During a storm in December 2014 which dumped 8.4 inches (210 mm) of rain in 24 hours, Foss Creek overflowed its banks, flooding portions of downtown Healdsburg and forcing the closure of City Hall. Automobiles were submerged to the level of their windows, roughly 150 business were affected, and two dozen businesses suffered interior water damage.

Walters Ranch Hop Kiln
Walters Ranch Hop Kiln

Walters Ranch Hop Kiln is historical site of buildings built in 1905, in Sonoma, California in Sonoma County, California. The Walters Ranch Hop Kiln is a California Historical Landmark No. 627 listed on January 13, 1958. The Walters Ranch Hop Kiln was built by Italian stonemason, Angelo "'Skinny" Soldini. Sol Walters purchased 380 acres of the Rancho Sotoyome, a 1853 Mexican land grant to Josefa Fitch. The Walters Ranch Hop Kiln is composed of three stone kilns (ovens, Oast houses) for drying hops for 20 hours a patch. Hops are used in beer making breweries. In addition to the kilns, the site as a wooden building for cooling the hops and a two-story press for baling the hops for shipment. The Walters Ranch Hop Kilns was one of early and large operation in the Northern California region. Landmark Vineyards purchased the property in 2016. Landmark Vineyards', Landmark Hop Kiln Winery, is restoring the buildings that are in the Russian River Valley. It was hops, not grapes that was Sonoma County's first major crop. By 1940 hops was no longer and major crop due to the downy mildew disease and insect phylloxera.There are other historical buildings on the site, A 1888 sheep barn was built with square nails and wood peg construction. Also a Italianate house. A California historical marker is at 6050 Westside Road, Healdsburg. The historical marker at Walters Ranch Hop Kiln was placed there by the California Department of Parks and Recreation in working with the Griffin Vineyard on May 1, 1977.Walters Ranch Hop Kiln is on the National Register of Historic Places in Sonoma County, California.