Wet, wild and wacky: Fourth of July in Sonoma County back in the day

We picked through our archives to find the wildest, wackiest Independence Day photos from around Sonoma County.|

Independence Day has been celebrated with great patriotic flare in Sonoma County since the late 1800s.

Click through the gallery above to see some of our favorite holiday photos from the 1890s until 2015.

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