Editing Windsor, California (section)

===Founding===
The site now occupied by the town of Windsor was originally inhabited by the [[Southern Pomo]]. It was known as Tsoliikawai (''ćol:ik:o=wi''),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=Neil Alexander |title=A Grammar of Southern Pomo |date=2020 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-1-4962-1889-6 |page=298 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ts_XDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT298 |language=en}}</ref> meaning "[[Icterid|blackbird]] field", a name also applied to the village, tribe or tribelet at the site.<ref name="Stewart">{{cite book |last1=Stewart |first1=Omer C |title=Notes on Pomo ethnography |date=1942 |publisher=University of California Press |page=53 |url=http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp040-003.pdf |language=en}}</ref> This group was probably part of the Kaitactemi tribe that ruled from the [[Healdsburg, California|Healdsburg]] area down to [[Mark West Creek]].<ref name="Stewart" />

Windsor's first European settlers arrived in 1851. In 1855, a [[post office]] was established in Windsor and Hiram Lewis, a [[Pony Express]] rider, became the town's first postmaster. He named the town Windsor because it reminded him of the grounds around [[Windsor Castle]], a medieval castle from his home country of [[England]]. The following year, a business enterprise was built in eastern Windsor, which included a goods store, a shoe shop, a grocery and meat market, a [[Bar (establishment)|saloon]], a hotel, a [[boarding house]], and two [[confectionery]] shops. The [[Northwestern Pacific Railroad]] was completed through the town in 1872, providing a faster and cheaper link to the Bay Area.<ref name="WindsorHistory"/>

On May 21, 1905, a fire destroyed the center of Windsor. Fanned by heavy winds, the fire destroyed several businesses, including a hotel and a barber shop. An estimated $30,000 worth of property was damaged.<ref name="WindsorHistory"/>

The [[Great San Francisco Earthquake]] caused major damage to numerous buildings in Windsor, many of which were still in the process of repair and reconstruction from 1905 fire.<ref>[http://www.sfmuseum.net/press/clips11.html ''San Francisco Chronicle'', May 5, 1906, republished article, The Museum of the City of San Francisco]</ref>

In 1915, the Old [[U.S. Route 101 in California|Redwood Highway]] through Windsor was paved. Up until then, all roads in the area had been dirt.<ref name="WindsorHistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.windsor.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=439 |publisher=Town of Windsor |work=Windsor Historical Society |title=History |access-date=August 25, 2012}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], a [[United States Army Air Forces]] training air base (currently the [[Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport]]) was built in southern Windsor, and it was common to hear fighter aircraft and bombers flying over the town.<ref>{{cite book|title=Windsor: The Birth of a City|publisher=Rayve Productions Inc.|year=1991|author=Fraire, Gabriel A.|isbn=978-1-877810-91-6}}</ref>

In 1943, a camp for [[Germany|German]] [[prisoners of war]] was built west of downtown Windsor, on the site of a former [[migrant labor]] camp. The camp was a branch camp of the much larger [[Camp Beale]] POW camp.<ref name="WindsorHistory" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Windsor Branch Prisoner of War Camp |publisher=California State Military Department|access-date=August 25, 2012 |url=http://www.militarymuseum.org/WindsorPOWCamp.html}}</ref> Those assigned to the camp worked (for $0.80 per day) at farms in the county, picking apples, prunes, hops, and other crops, packing apples, and doing similar work.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://northbaydigital.sonoma.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Lebaron/id/394|title=Camp Windsor a friendly prison for German POWs|last=LeBaron|first=Gaye|author-link=Gaye LeBaron|date=December 6, 1992|work=Press Democrat|access-date=June 2, 2016}}</ref>