Stewarts Point is located on the Pacific coast and California State Route 1, 20 miles (32 km) west of Healdsburg.

The large sheltered cove fed by a small creek offered access to the area's bountiful marine and coastal resources.

[3] The community was, and still is, an important part of California's timber industry, shipping ports, railroads, lumber mills, and tie camps operated out of the settlement.

Boone was an outlaw that caused mayhem throughout the west and after a warrant for his arrest was issued he was sheltered in the mountains behind Stewart's Point by his cousins.

[4] L. Davenport and Turner along with their brothers James, Daunt (John), Weid (William Johnson), and Chat (Chatham E.) had arrived in California during the Gold Rush.

The Stewart family eventually migrated North and settled first in Point Arena, and then Fort Bragg.