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The Santa Rosa Valley, once carpeted in wild oats and littered with acorns from ancient oaks, was home to Pomo and Miwok Indians for thousands of years. The cattle ranches and farms that displaced them in the mid-1800s had already spawned a thriving commercial town named Santa Rosa, the county seat, when the railroad arrived in 1870. That railroad, and the commerce it brought, secured the city's role as the legal and financial nexus of Sonoma County and its most populous city. When many of the downtown buildings collapsed in the famous 1906 earthquake, the community built itself back into a picture-perfect all-American city, the setting for such films as Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt and Disney's Pollyanna. Another devastating quake in 1969 damaged many structures, but once again that destruction prompted redevelopment and renewed growth for Santa Rosa in the 21st century.

Book details

• Full title: Santa Rosa
• Author: Simone Wilson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780738528854
• ISBN: 0738528854
• ID: 11466233
• Publisher: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Weight: 299 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 165 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: June 2004

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