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Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA



 


Notizen:
Wikipedia 2016:

Santa Rosa is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. Its estimated 2014 population was 174,170. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's North Coast, Wine Country and the North Bay; the fifth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont; and the 28th most populous city in California.

History:

Before the arrival of Europeans, the wide valley containing Santa Rosa was home to a strong and populous tribe of Pomo natives known as the Bitakomtara. The Bitakomtara controlled the valley closely, barring passage to others until permission was arranged. Those who entered without permission were subject to harsh penalties. The tribe gathered at ceremonial times on Santa Rosa Creek near present-day Spring Lake Regional Park. Upon the arrival of Europeans, the Pomos were decimated by smallpox brought unintentionally from Europe, and by the eradication efforts of Anglo settlers. By 1900 the Pomo population had decreased by 95%.

The first known permanent European settlement of Santa Rosa was the homestead of the Carrillo family, in-laws to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, who settled the Sonoma pueblo and Petaluma area. In the 1830s, during the Mexican period, the family of Maria Lopez de Carrillo built an adobe house on their Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa land grant, just east of what later became downtown Santa Rosa. Allegedly, however, by the 1820s, before the Carrillos built their adobe in the 1830s, Spanish and Mexican settlers from nearby Sonoma and other settlements to the south raised livestock in the area and slaughtered animals at the fork of the Santa Rosa Creek and Matanzas Creek, near the intersection of modern-day Santa Rosa Avenue and Sonoma Avenue. This is supposedly the origin of the name of Matanzas Creek as, because of its use as a slaughtering place, the confluence came to be called La Matanza.

By the 1850s, a Wells Fargo post and general store were established in what is now downtown Santa Rosa. In the mid-1850s, several prominent locals, including Julio Carrillo, son of Maria Carrillo, laid out the grid street pattern for Santa Rosa with a public square in the center, a pattern which largely remains as the street pattern for downtown Santa Rosa to this day, despite changes to the central square, now called Old Courthouse Square.

In 1867, the county recognized Santa Rosa as an incorporated city and in 1868 the state officially confirmed the incorporation, making it officially the third incorporated city in Sonoma County, after Petaluma, incorporated in 1858, and Healdsburg, incorporated in 1867.

The U.S. Census records, among others, show that after California became a state, Santa Rosa grew steadily early on, despite initially lagging behind nearby Petaluma in the 1850s and early 1860s. According to the U.S. Census, in 1870 Santa Rosa was the eighth largest city in California, and county seat of one of the most populous counties in the state. Growth and development after that were steady but never rapid. The city continued to grow when other early population centers declined or stagnated, but by 1900 it had been, or was being, overtaken by many other newer population centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California. According to a 1905 article in the Press Democrat newspaper reporting on the "Battle of the Trains", the city had just over 10,000 people at the time.

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake essentially destroyed the entire downtown, but the city's population did not greatly suffer. However, after that period the population growth of Santa Rosa, as with most of the area, was very slow.

Famed director Alfred Hitchcock filmed his thriller Shadow of a Doubt in Santa Rosa in 1943; the film gives glimpses of Santa Rosa in the 1940s. Many of the downtown buildings seen in the film no longer exist due to major reconstruction following the strong earthquakes in October 1969. However, some, like the rough-stone Northwestern Pacific Railroad depot and the prominent Empire Building (built in 1910 with a gold-topped clock tower), still survive. A scene at the bank was filmed at the corner of Fourth Street and Mendocino Avenue (at present day Old Courthouse square); the KRESS building on Fourth Street is also visible. However, the courthouse and bank are now gone. The Coen brothers' 2001 film The Man Who Wasn't There is set in Santa Rosa circa 1949.

Santa Rosa grew following World War II. The city was a convenient location for San Francisco travelers bound for the Russian River.

The population increased by 2/3 between 1950 and 1970, an average of 1,000 new residents a year over the 20 years. Some of the increase was from immigration, and some from annexation of portions of the surrounding area.

In 1958 the United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization designated Santa Rosa as one of its eight regional headquarters, with jurisdiction over Region 7, which included American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. Santa Rosa continued as a major center for civil defense activity (under the Office of Emergency Planning and the Office of Emergency Preparedness) until 1972 when the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created in its place, ending the civil defense's 69-year history.

When the City Council adopted the city's first modern General Plan in 1991, the population was about 113,000. In the 21 years following 1970, Santa Rosa grew by about 3,000 residents a year—triple the average growth during the previous twenty years.

Santa Rosa 2010, the 1991 General Plan, called for a population of 175,000 in 2010. The Council expanded the city's urban boundary to include all the land then planned for future annexation, and declared it would be Santa Rosa's "ultimate" boundary. The rapid growth that was being criticized as urban sprawl became routine infill development.

At the first five-year update of the plan, in 1996, the Council extended the planning period by ten years, renaming it Vision 2020 (updated to Santa Rosa 2020, and then again to Santa Rosa 2030 Vision), and added more land and population. Now the City projects a population of 195,000 in 2020.

Ort : Geographische Breite: 38.440429, Geographische Länge: -122.71405479999999


Geburt

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Geburt    Personen-Kennung 
1 Ballard, Robert Leland Sr.  30 Apr 1895Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I26154
2 Bonar, Jane  28 Jun 1912Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I24997
3 Bonar, Mary E.  24 Mrz 1906Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I24982
4 Espey, George B.  Jan 1880Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I26200
5 Hagel, Dixie Lee  1 Aug 1936Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I12592
6 Levar, Sandra Katherine  18 Nov 1939Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I186599
7 Zweygardt, Mathilda  um 1889Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I85968

Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 Barlow, Thomas Edgar  23 Aug 1904Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I26125
2 Glosson, Sarah Phillips  29 Okt 1878Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I216519
3 Hepper, Thomas Carl  26 Jan 2003Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I159046
4 King, Mary Ann  10 Jan 1904Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I26069
5 Miller, James Pierce  16 Mrz 1931Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I26078
6 Miller, Thomas Bell  26 Jan 1892Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I26077
7 Miller, Thomas Boone  2 Feb 1934Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I26080
8 Pallas, Grace Lois  27 Aug 1995Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I272625
9 Robertson, Josvald  Datum unbekanntSanta Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I31145
10 Shannon, George J.  24 Mrz 2003Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I24013
11 Tarbell, Virginina  5 Aug 2001Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I23782
12 Thompson, Joan A.  25 Jul 2021Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I246334
13 Wahl, Alvina C.  21 Jan 2003Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I159040
14 Wahl, Lydia  18 Mrz 2004Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I159044
15 Wohl, Alice Deloris  19 Mrz 2009Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I80264
16 Wolsey, Hugh  10 Jul 1986Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I171512

Beerdigung

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Beerdigung    Personen-Kennung 
1 Enzminger, Friedrich  Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I267175
2 Thompson, Joan A.  Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I246334
3 Wolsey, Hugh  Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA I171512

Eheschließung

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   Familie    Eheschließung    Familien-Kennung 
1 Barlow / Miller  18 Feb 1891Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA F8756
2 Letherman / Hagel  18 Dez 1955Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA F4481

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