Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa is a city in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s the biggest city in the Wine Country of California’s North Bay and North Coast. Right now, the population is nearly 175,000 people, and that number increases every year.

This history of Santa Rosa is an interesting one. It was first occupied by the Bitakomtara, a Native American tribe. But this tribe’s population largely lost its numbers from smallpox, which was brought by Europeans. Mexican and Spanish settlers then built up the area, and Santa Rosa became a fully incorporated city in the late 1800s.

Santa Rosa’s population has grown steadily as California became a state and more Americans fled to the area. Today, it’s California’s 28th largest city.