Sophie Alstrom Mitchell

Historical marker location:

3100 White Sulphur Spring Road, St. Helena, California

( Marker is on White Sulphur Spring Road, 1 mile west of Spring Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1988

The first female mayor in the U.S. was elected in California in 1887. Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, but she was born in California and later moved to Kansas with her husband.