SANTA

See also:

• ROSA, CARL AUGUST NICHOLAS (1843-1889)
• ROSA, MONTE
• ROSA, SALVATOR (1615-1673)

ROSA  , a city and the county-seat of Sonoma county, California, U.S.A., situated in a broad valley (altitude about 18o ft.) among the Coast Ranges, about 52 M . N. of San Francisco . Pop . (1900) 6673, (1029 foreign-born); (1910) 7817 . It is served by the North-Western Pacific and the Southern Pacific rail-ways . Santa Rosa is in a region admirably adapted to the growing of hops—the city is an important hop market—and of fruit and grain, and the handling of these products is a leading industry . Poultry and dairying interests are also important . It was the home of Luther Burbank (b . 1849), the originator of many new flowers, fruits and vegetables, including the Burbank potato, the pineapple quince, and the stoneless prune . Santa Rosa was first settled about 1838, was laid out and incorporated in 1853, replaced Sonoma as the county-seat in >:8$4, and was chartered as a city in 1867 . In the earthquake of the 18th of April 1906 it suffered severely .