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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
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Rosa is in a region admirably adapted to the growing of hopsthe city is an important hop marketand 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
potato
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
April
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