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SANTA ROSA

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 191 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANTA 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
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San Francisco . Pop . (1900) 6673, (1029
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foreign-born); (1910) 7817 . It is served by the North-Western Pacific and the
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Southern Pacific
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rail-ways .
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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
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earthquake of the 18th of
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April 1906 it suffered severely .

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