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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 ...
Sebastopol was located in a very rich mining district, termed by one newspaper as the "celebrated Sebastopol diggings." [15] One of the early mining pioneers, who may have coined the name Sweetland, was Lemuel C. McKeeby, who arrived in 1853. His memoirs provide an interesting account of mining in Sebastopol before the arrival of the major ...
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Sebastopol station was an interurban train station in Sebastopol, California. It was served by the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad and was adjacent to the railway's powerhouse. Official operations ceased in 1932 with the rest of P&SR passenger service. It was leased as retail space for a time before being converted to a museum. [2]
George Strout, one of Sebastopol's early mayors, bought a lot at 253 Florence Avenue from Gertrude Huntley in 1901 and built a Queen Anne Victorian for his family in 1903. Strout, a master carpenter, founded Sebastopol's first planing mill, the Strout Planing Mill, which supplied all of the materials and millwork for his home. Strout was known ...
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.
A first-spike ceremony was held on April 5, 1904, at the Steamer Gold landing at the foot of Copeland Street. The electric line was completed to Sebastopol in October, and extended along Sebastopol road toward the western edge of Santa Rosa. [4] The construction crew needed to cross the north–south steam railroad to reach downtown Santa Rosa.
Rancho Llano de Santa Rosa was a 13,316-acre (53.89 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Sonoma County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Joaquín Carrillo. [1] The name means "Plains of Santa Rosa". The grant was west of Santa Rosa along the Laguna de Santa Rosa and encompassed present-day Sebastopol, California ...