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Sonoma Valley

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Sonoma Valley is a valley located in southeastern Sonoma County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1]

84 relations: Alfred L. Kroeber, Alta California, American Viticultural Area, Blue Wing Inn, Botanical garden, Boyes Hot Springs, California, Buena Vista Winery, Calabazas Creek (Sonoma County), California, California Republic, California State Historic Park, California wine, Carriger Creek (Sonoma County, California), Christian mission, Dotdash, El Verano, California, Farallon Plate, Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente, California, Flag of California, Fodor's, Francis Solanus, Franciscans, Geothermal energy, Glen Ellen, California, Graham Creek, Gundlach Bundschu, Island arc, Jack London, Jack London State Historic Park, John C. Frémont, Joseph Hooker, Kenwood, California, Kit Carson, Los Carneros AVA, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Mayacamas Mountains, Mexico, Mission San Francisco Solano (California), Miwok, Napa Sonoma Marsh, National Register of Historic Places, Northern California, Pío Pico, Philip Sheridan, Phylloxera, Pomo, Prohibition in the United States, Quarryhill Botanical Garden, Sacramento River, San Francisco, ..., San Pablo Bay, Santa Rosa, California, Schellville, California, Sonoma Barracks, Sonoma County Water Agency, Sonoma County, California, Sonoma Creek, Sonoma International Film Festival, Sonoma Mountain, Sonoma Mountains, Sonoma Plaza, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma State Historic Park, Sonoma Valley AVA, Sonoma, California, Spain, State park, Stream, Subduction, Suisun people, Terrane, The Valley of the Moon (novel), Ulysses S. Grant, United States, Vallejo Estate, Valley, Volcanism, William Tecumseh Sherman, Wine, Wine Country (California), Wintu language, Wintun, Yulupa Creek, 2017 California wildfires. Expand index (34 more) »

Alfred L. Kroeber

Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist.

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Alta California

Alta California (Upper California), founded in 1769 by Gaspar de Portolà, was a polity of New Spain, and, after the Mexican War of Independence in 1822, a territory of Mexico.

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American Viticultural Area

An American Viticultural Area (AVA) is a designated wine grape-growing region in the United States, providing an official appellation for the benefit of wineries.

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Blue Wing Inn

The Blue Wing Inn in Sonoma, California, was one of the first hotels built in the state north of San Francisco.

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Botanical garden

A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.

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Boyes Hot Springs, California

Boyes Hot Springs (also called Boyes Springs or The Springs)is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Buena Vista Winery

Buena Vista Winery is a winery located in Sonoma, California, United States.

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Calabazas Creek (Sonoma County)

Calabazas Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Republic

The California Republic was an unrecognized breakaway state that, for 25 days in 1846, militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County in California.

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California State Historic Park

The State of California operates and maintains about fifty California State Historic Parks, ranging from Shasta State Historic Park, a California Gold Rush-era ghost town in the northern part of the state, to Old Town San Diego State Historic Park in downtown San Diego in the southern part of the state.

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California wine

California wine is wine made in the U.S. state of California.

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Carriger Creek (Sonoma County, California)

Carriger Creek is a stream Sonoma County, California.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to spread Christianity.

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Dotdash

Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.

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El Verano, California

El Verano is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Farallon Plate

The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic plate that began subducting under the west coast of the North American Plate—then located in modern Utah—as Pangaea broke apart during the Jurassic period.

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Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente, California

Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, in the United States.

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Flag of California

The Bear Flag is the official flag of the state of California.

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Fodor's

Fodor's is a publisher of English language travel and tourism information and the first relatively professional producer of travel guidebooks.

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Francis Solanus

Francisco Solano y Jiménez, O.F.M., (also known as Francis Solanus) (10 March 1549 – 14 July 1610) was a Spanish friar and missionary in South America, belonging to the Order of Friars Minor (the Franciscans), and is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Geothermal energy

Geothermal energy is thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth.

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Glen Ellen, California

Glen Ellen is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Graham Creek

Graham Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Gundlach Bundschu

Gundlach Bundschu Winery is California's oldest continuously family-owned winery, and is the second oldest winery after Buena Vista Winery (established a year earlier by Agoston Haraszthy).

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Island arc

An island arc is a type of archipelago, often composed of a chain of volcanoes, with arc-shaped alignment, situated parallel and close to a boundary between two converging tectonic plates.

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Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.

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Jack London State Historic Park

Jack London State Historic Park, also known as Jack London Home and Ranch, is a California State Historic Park near Glen Ellen, California, United States, situated on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain.

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John C. Frémont

John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.

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Joseph Hooker

Joseph Hooker (November 13, 1814 – October 31, 1879) was a career United States Army officer, achieving the rank of major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Kenwood, California

Kenwood, California is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma County, California, United States, located on Sonoma Highway (State Route 12) between the cities of Santa Rosa and Sonoma.

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Kit Carson

Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868), better known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman.

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Los Carneros AVA

Los Carneros AVA (also known as Carneros AVA) is an American Viticultural Area which includes parts of both Sonoma and Napa counties in California, U.S.A..

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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (4 July 1807 – 18 January 1890) was a Californio military commander, politician, and rancher.

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Mayacamas Mountains

The Mayacamas Mountains are located in northwestern California in the United States.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mission San Francisco Solano (California)

Mission San Francisco Solano was the 21st, last and northernmost mission in Alta California.

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Miwok

The Miwok (also spelled Miwuk, Mi-Wuk, or Me-Wuk) are members of four linguistically related Native American groups indigenous to what is now Northern California, who traditionally spoke one of the Miwok languages in the Utian family.

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Napa Sonoma Marsh

The Napa Sonoma Marsh is a wetland at the northern edge of San Pablo Bay, which is a northern arm of the San Francisco Bay in California, United States.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Northern California

Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal or "The Northstate" for the northern interior counties north of Sacramento to the Oregon stateline) is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Pío Pico

Pío de Jesús Pico (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) was a Californio rancher and politician, the last governor of Alta California (now the State of California) under Mexican rule.

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Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Phylloxera

Grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Fitch 1855); family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs); originally described in France as Phylloxera vastatrix; equated to the previously described Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, Phylloxera vitifoliae; commonly just called phylloxera (from φύλλον, leaf, and ξηρός, dry) is a pest of commercial grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America.

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Pomo

The Pomo are an indigenous people of California.

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Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

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Quarryhill Botanical Garden

Quarryhill Botanical Garden is an education and research botanical garden home to one of the largest collections of scientifically documented, wild-source Asian plants in North America and Europe, many of which represent ancestors of horticultural favorites found throughout the western world.

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Sacramento River

The Sacramento River is the principal river of Northern California in the United States, and is the largest river in California.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Pablo Bay

San Pablo Bay is a tidal estuary that forms the northern extension of San Francisco Bay in the East Bay and North Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (lit. Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Schellville, California

Schellville is an unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Sonoma Barracks

The Sonoma Barracks (El Cuartel de Sonoma) is a two-story, wide-balconied, adobe building facing the central plaza of the City of Sonoma, California.

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Sonoma County Water Agency

The Sonoma County Water Agency maintains a water transmission system that provides naturally filtered Russian River water to more than 600,000 residents in portions of Sonoma County, California and Marin County, California.

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Sonoma County, California

Sonoma County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Sonoma Creek

Sonoma Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Sonoma International Film Festival

The Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) is an American film festival that began in 1997.

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Sonoma Mountain

Sonoma Mountain is a prominent landform within the Sonoma Mountains of southern Sonoma County, California.

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Sonoma Mountains

The Sonoma Mountains are a northwest-southeast trending mountain range of the Inner Coast Ranges in the California Coast Ranges System, located in Sonoma County, Northern California.

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Sonoma Plaza

Sonoma Plaza is the central plaza in the former town of Sonoma (pueblo de Sonoma, in Spanish), now known as Sonoma, California.

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Sonoma Raceway

Sonoma Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway and Infineon Raceway is a road course and drag strip located on the landform known as Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains in Sonoma, California, USA.

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Sonoma State Historic Park

Sonoma State Historic Park is a California State Park located in the center of Sonoma, California.

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Sonoma Valley AVA

The Sonoma Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area in Sonoma County, California, United States which centers on the Sonoma Valley (also known as The Valley of the Moon) in the southern portion of the county.

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Sonoma, California

Sonoma is a city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, United States, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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State park

State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision.

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Stream

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.

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Suisun people

The Suisunes (also called the Suisun and the "People of the West Wind") were a tribe of Native Americans that lived in Northern California's Suisun Marsh regions of Solano County, California between what is now Suisun City, Vacaville and Putah Creek around 200 years ago.

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Terrane

A terrane in geology, in full a tectonostratigraphic terrane, is a fragment of crustal material formed on, or broken off from, one tectonic plate and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.

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The Valley of the Moon (novel)

The Valley of the Moon (1913) is a novel by American writer Jack London (as well as the mythic and romantic name for the wine-growing Sonoma Valley of California).

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vallejo Estate

The Vallejo Estate is a historic house in Sonoma, California, one of the six sites that comprises the Sonoma State Historic Park.

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Valley

A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.

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Volcanism

Volcanism is the phenomenon of eruption of molten rock (magma) onto the surface of the Earth or a solid-surface planet or moon, where lava, pyroclastics and volcanic gases erupt through a break in the surface called a vent.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

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Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from grapes fermented without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients.

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Wine Country (California)

The Wine Country is an area of Northern California in the United States known worldwide as a premium wine-growing region.

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Wintu language

Wintu is a critically endangered Wintuan language spoken by the Wintu people of Northern California.

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Wintun

The Wintun are members of several related Native American peoples of Northern California, including the Wintu (northern), Nomlaki (central), and Patwin (southern).

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Yulupa Creek

Yulupa Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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2017 California wildfires

The 2017 California wildfire season was the most destructive wildfire season on record, which saw multiple wildfires burning across California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoma_Valley

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