Drove over to Fort Ross on Sunday.
(edited a bunch of times because imageshack kept dropping my first shot.)
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"Fort Ross was established as an agricultural base from which the (Alaskan) settlements could be supplied with food and carry on trade with Alta California. Fort Ross itself was the hub of a number of smaller Russian settlements comprising what was called Krepost Ross ("Fortress Ross"
on official documents and charts produced by the Company itself. Colony Ross referred to the entire area where Russians had settled. These settlements constituted the southernmost Russian colony in North America, and were spread over an area stretching from Point Arena to Tomales Bay. The colony included a port at Bodega Bay, which was called Port Rumyantsev, a sealing station on the Farallon Islands, 18 miles (29 km) out to sea from San Francisco, and a number of small farming communities, called "ranchos" including Chernykh, near present day Graton, and Khlebnikov, a mile north of the present day town of Bodega in the Salmon Creek valley, and Rancho Kostromitinov on the Russian River."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ross,_California
I took these shots in the Chief Managers home.
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