Lytton is an unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States.

[2] The community of Lytton grew up around a large luxury resort built at the site in 1872 by Capt.

After Litton's death in the 1880s, the site briefly became a military school for boys, until in 1893 it was purchased by an Oakland doctor and converted into a sanitarium.

The Salvation Army purchased the sanitarium in 1904, and for many years thereafter operated it as the Lytton Orphanage and School for Boys and Girls.

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