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Sonoma Valley is the birthplace of California wine industry and often called the Valley of the Moon. Sonoma Valley is home to some of the first vineyards and wineries in the state, some of which survived the phylloxera epidemic of the 1870s and the impact of the ban. Their cellars are generally well prepared to receive tourists, and Sonoma Valley offers a wide range of festivals and events throughout the year including the prestigious Sonoma Film Festival Valley. Today, wines from this small valley are protected by the federal government Sonoma Valley and Carneros AVA (or American Viticultural Areas).
The valley is located in southeastern Sonoma County, between the mountains and the Sonoma Mayacamas Mountains. It extends from San Pablo Bay in the south of the city of Santa Rosa in the north. Sonoma Creek runs through the valley to the bay. It includes the incorporated town of Sonoma and the City of Santa Rosa, and numerous unincorporated communities, including Kenwood and Glen Ellen, near Santa Rosa and near Sonoma, El Verano, Boyes Hot Springs, Fetters Hot Springs, and Agua Caliente.
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The Botanical Garden is a research Quarryhill botanical garden housing the largest collections of temperate zone Asian plants in North America. Planting was begun in 1990. It is located near Glen Ellen, California, USA in Sonoma Valley and is open to the public. The garden is dedicated to plants of temperate zones of China, Japan and the Himalayas, with more than 90 percent increased from the wild, scientifically documented seed. The collection includes rare species such as Cornus capitata, Holboellia coriacea, Illicium simonsii, Rosa chinensis var. spontanea, a native of Sichuan, and as extensive collections of various Asian wild dogwoods, lilies, magnolias, maples, oaks, roses and rhododendrons.
Jack London State National Park, also known as Jack London, Interior and Finance, is a State Historic Park, California near Glen Ellen, California, USA on the eastern slope of mountain Sonoma. Includes the ruins of a burned house a few months before Jack London and the family moved into a house where he had lived, later built another house, and the graves of Jack London and his wife. The property is a National Historic Landmark.
Sonoma State Historic Park is a state park located in the heart of Sonoma, California. The park consists of six sites in the Sonoma Mission San Francisco Solano, the Presidio of Sonoma, or Sonoma Barracks, the Toscano Hotel, the Blue Wing Inn, and La Casa Lachryma Montis Grande, homes of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Military Commander and Director of Colonization of the Northern Border.
Sonoma Creek is a stream in northern California. It is one of two main drains in southern Sonoma County, California, with headwaters in the rugged hills of Sugarloaf Ridge State Park and approve the management of San Pablo Bay, the northern arm of San Francisco Bay. The basin drained by Sonoma Creek is roughly equivalent to the Sonoma Valley wine region, an area of about 170 square miles (435 square kilometers). The State of California has designated the Sonoma Creek watershed as a "critique of Coastal Water Resources." East of this basin is usually rectangular Napa River Basin, and west are the Petaluma River and Tolay Creek watershed.
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