Three new books have provided a mother lode of little-known details about Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, his ascent to wealth and power in California under Spanish and Mexican flags, and the dream ...

Early-day California historian H.H. Bancroft once wrote, without elaboration, that Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was not “strict in his relations with women.” Today’s researchers have provided ...

From the beginning -- when Spanish explorers stumbled in 1775 onto the harbor at Carquinez Straits they christened "Port of Our Heavenly Lady" -- the area that later became known as Vallejo was ...

It existed just 12 years before Mexican Gen. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo took over the site. As the city of Sonoma spread around it, the mission dwindled, with pioneers cannibalizing materials for ...

With fires burning at the edge of the town he founded nearly two centuries ago, Sonoma Plaza’s famous military general got dressed up Sunday to do his part for hope and help. Someone or someones ...

Considering his outsize influence and role in Sonoma and California history, some are saying it’s about time that Gen. Mariano Vallejo is honored with a statue in the town he founded more than ...

General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo is finally getting his due in Sonoma with a statue that will grace the plaza and town he created more than 180 years ago.

Though her bust in cast in bronze, Francisca Benicia Carrillo Vallejo (Aug. 23, 1815, to Jan. 30, 1891), the wife of Gen. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, probably did not expect to be considered a weath… ...

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the Mexican general who colonized California’s Sonoma County, remains an admired figure to this day. A local authority erected a monument to the general as recently as ...

The missing statue is the head of Francisca Benicia Carrillo, the wife of Gen. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. The city was named after Gen. Vallejo who died in 1890, ...