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Sebastopol had a church, the Miners' Church, as early as 1857. It was served by all the major express lines including Langton's Pioneer Express, which ran to Downieville, Marysville, Nevada City and Virginia City, as well as towns in between, and Dornin's, later Menner's, stage line with frequent service between North San Juan and French Corral ...
Ragle Ranch Regional Park is a regional park in Sebastopol, California, U.S.A. that is maintained by the Sonoma County Regional Parks Department. It covers an area of 157 acres (64 ha) [2] on the west side of town. The park entrance is at 500 Ragle Road, [2] and the day use fee is $7 per vehicle.
Sebastopol (/ s ɪ ˈ b æ s t ə p oʊ l,-p uː l / sib-AST-ə-pohl, -pool) is a city in Sonoma County, California, with a recorded population of 7,521, per the 2020 U.S. Census. [7] Sebastopol was once primarily a plum- and apple-growing region. [9] Wine grapes are the predominant agriculture crop, and nearly all lands once used for ...
The jardin à la française evolved from the French Renaissance garden, a style which was inspired by the Italian Renaissance garden at the beginning of the 16th century. . The Italian Renaissance garden, typified by the Boboli Gardens in Florence and the Villa Medici in Fiesole, was characterized by planting beds, or parterres, created in geometric shapes, and laid out symmetrical patterns ...
The façade facing west, the French Garden, is the richest: it is adorned with a forecourt of four isolated columns [62] in the Corinthian style surmounted by capitals. [ 63 ] [ note 7 ] On the south courtyard side, the ground floor is embossed horizontally, [ note 8 ] while the main floor and attic are punctuated with Corinthian pilasters. [ 64 ]
Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Experiment Farm is the official name of the 3 acres (12,000 m 2) that remain of the farm originally purchased in 1885 by famed plant breeder Luther Burbank (1849–1926) in an area of Sebastopol, California, formerly known as the "Gold Ridge District".
In the French formal garden, a bosquet (French, from Italian bosco, "grove, wood") is a formal plantation of trees in a wide variety of forms, some open at the bottom and others not. At a minimum a bosquet can be five trees of identical species planted as a quincunx (like a 5 dice), or set in strict regularity as to rank and file, so that the ...
A private park and garden of 75 hectares, surrounding the château. The French garden was begun in the 17th century, an English park added in the 18th century, and the French garden was redesigned in 1895 by the owner, Henri de Breteuil, and the landscape architect Achille Duchêne. Major features, including a labyrinth, were added since 1990 ...