In Part II of this video presentation sponsored by the Petaluma Historical Museum and the Sonoma County Library, historian John Sheehy explores how a diverse community of Irish, Black, and German merchants in the 19th century made Petaluma’s Main Street such a bustling melting pot.
Real Main Street Video Presentation, Part I
Part I of this video presentation series explores Petaluma’s early Jewish, Chinese, and Swiss Italian communities.