Abstract
This project completes a Historic American Landscape Survey Report for properties associated with the Doghole Port trade in Sonoma County, California. The attached report identified and documented Stewarts Point, the best-preserved example of an operational doghole port operation, and Fort Ross, a typical modern landscape featuring nonextant resources associated with the trade. This project established a historic context for the doghole port trade, specific to California’s environmental history. The completed report, comprised of original large-format black and white photographs, corresponding maps, photo descriptions, and a historic context, is consistent with the National Park Service’s Historic American Landscape Survey Guidelines and submitted to the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The National Park Service assigned Historic American Landscape Survey Number CA-159 to the finalized report and is holding it in a permanent collection of over 40,000 historic records in free and publicly available archive.