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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

SANTA See also:
ROSA, CARL AUGUST NICHOLAS (1843-1889)
ROSA, MONTE
ROSA, SALVATOR (1615-1673)
ROSA , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Sonoma county, See also:

California, U.S.A., situated in a broad valley (See also:

ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude about 18o ft.) among the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

Coast Ranges, about 52 M. N. of See also:

SAN

San Francisco. Pop. (1900) 6673, (1029 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 7817. It is served by the See also:

North-Western Pacific and the See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern Pacific See also:

RAIL

rail-ways. Santa Rosa is in a region admirably adapted to the growing of hops—the city is an important See also:

HOP (Ger. Hopfen, Fr. houblon)

hop See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market—and of See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit and See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, and the handling of these products is a leading See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry. Poultry and dairying interests are also important. It was the See also:

home of See also:

LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther Burbank (b. 1849), the originator of many new See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers, fruits and vegetables, including the Burbank See also:

potato, the pineapple See also:

QUINCE (Lat. Cydonia or Colonea, Ital. Cotogna, Fr. coing, Mid. Eng. coin, quiet, whence a collective plural " quins," corrupted to singular " quince ")

quince, and the stoneless See also:

PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouµvov, plum)

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 See also:

EARTHQUAKE

earthquake of the 18th of See also:

APRIL

April 1906 it suffered severely.

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