Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms Inc

George Nicholas and his wife Eileen “Johnnie“ Nicholas started a turkey farm at Two Rock about 10 miles West of Petaluma, California, a few months after their marriage in 1938. The property was found to be disease-ridden and not suitable for turkeys. Petaluma was once regarded as the chicken city of the world largely as the result of Lyman Byce inventing the first practical chicken incubator in 1875. From then until 1940 the poultry egg industry in Petaluma flourished. It was not surprising that the land th