Sonoma County cities, towns, and destinations
My wife and I moved into Wikiup Greens a little over two years ago. We had never thought about a 55+ senior community to live in. I guess a combination of “just not thinking about it” plus our happiness where we were living kept it off the radar for us. Still, folks age, and our […]
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Windsor was a languishing small town just north of Santa Rosa until the 1980’s. A surge of construction followed for the next several decades, and the town has grown to over 25,000 people vaulting past neighboring Healdsburg. New construction of shopping including a Home Depot and WalMart has made Windsor a shopping destination as well
Our oldest settlement, Sonoma, was founded by Spanish missionaries in 1823 and is known as the birthplace of American California, for it was in this town plaza that the Bear Flag Revolt took place and a Bear Flag was first raised on June 14, 1846. The rebelling men claimed to act on the orders of
Sebastopol is an agriculturally based town in Sonoma County. The population was 7,774 at the 2000 census, but its businesses also serve surrounding rural portions of Sonoma County, totalling about 50,000 people. It is about a 20 minute drive from the Pacific Ocean, between Santa Rosa and Bodega Bay, and is known for its progressive
Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, USA. As of July 1, 2005, the population of Santa Rosa was approximately 156,200 residents. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California’s wine country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont. Santa Rosa’s