Petaluma is positioned in the US Petaluma - Petaluma Petaluma /p t lu m / is a small town/city in Sonoma County, California, in the United States.
The Rancho Petaluma Adobe, positioned in Petaluma, is a National Historic Landmark.
It was the center of a 66,000 acre (270-km ) ranch stretching from Petaluma River to Sonoma Creek.
Petaluma is a transliteration of the Coast Miwok phrase peta luuma which means hill backside and probably refers to Petaluma's adjacency to Sonoma Mountain.
Petaluma has a well-preserved, historic town/city center which includes many buildings that railwaythe 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Looking north along the Petaluma River from downtown wooden pedestrian bridge The Coast Miwok resided in southern Sonoma County, and Peta Luuma was originally the name of a Miwok village east of the Petaluma River.
A number of other Coast Miwok villages were also positioned in and around what is now Petaluma; Wotoki, immediately to the south of the village of Petaluma, on the opposite side of the river, Etem, Likatiut, and Tuchayalin, near downtown Petaluma, and Tulme and Susuli, just north of what are now the town/city limits of Petaluma. The Petaluma region was part of a 66,000 acre (270-km ) 1834 Mexican territory grant by Governor Jose Figueroa to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo called Rancho Petaluma.
In 1836, Vallejo ordered assembly of his Rancho Petaluma Adobe a ranch home in Petaluma, which his family often used as a summer home, while he resided in the neighboring town of Sonoma.
Pioneers flocked into Petaluma from the easterly United States after Michael Celiberti found gold in the Sierra Nevadas in 1849.
The town's position on the Petaluma River in the heart of productive farmland was critical to its expansion during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sailing scows, such as the scow schooner Alma (1892), and steamers plied the river between Petaluma and San Francisco, carrying agricultural produce and raw materials to the burgeoning town/city of San Francisco amid the California Gold Rush.
There were brothels downtown along Petaluma Boulevard, which used to be the chief thoroughfare until U.S.
The Sonoma County Bank Building, now the home of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company and the Petaluma Seed Bank, was assembled in the 1920s. Petaluma soon became known for its grain milling and chicken refining industries, which continue to the present as a lesser fraction of its commerce.
At one time, Petaluma was known as the "Egg Capital of the World," sparking such nicknames as "Chickaluma". Petaluma hosted the only known Poultry drugstore and is the place where the egg incubator was invented by Lyman Byce in 1879.
Petaluma is also where Randall Smith established Mesa/Boogie (also known as Mesa Engineering), manufacturer of hand-built guitar amplifiers used by such musicians as Carlos Santana and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
Even though it is no longer known as the Egg Capital of the World, Petaluma maintains a strong agricultural base today with dairy farms, olive groves, vineyards, and berry and vegetable farms.
According to the Army Museum at the Presidio, San Francisco, Petaluma was mostly unharmed amid the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, due to momentous stable bedrock underlying the region. As one of the several communities in the region left standing after the earthquake, Petaluma was the staging point for most Sonoma County rescue and relief accomplishments. Petaluma is today the locale of many distinguished, well-preserved pre-1906 buildings and Victorian homes on the side of the river. The downtown region has suffered many river floods over the years and amid the Depression commerce declined.
Traffic and new home evolution for the most part was rerouted to the east of downtown by the assembly of the 101 freeway. The downtown Petaluma Historic Commercial District is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The first official airmail flight took place in 1911, when Fred Wiseman carried a handful of mail from Petaluma to Santa Rosa, including letters from Petaluma postmaster John E.
With its large stock of historic buildings, Petaluma has been used as the recording locale for various movies set in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s (see list of movies below).
Because of the region's soaring populace in the sixties, the town/city enacted the "Petaluma Plan" in 1971.
This plan limited the number of building permits to 500 annually for a five-year reconstructionbeginning in 1972. At the same time Petaluma created a redbelt around the town as a boundary for urban expansion for a stated number of years.
The stated objectives of Petaluma's time controlled expansion management were to ensure orderly growth; to protect the city's small town character and encircling green space; to furnish a range of housing choices; and to maintain adequate waterworks and sewage treatment facilities.
Even with this history of prepared development, the Petaluma City Council voted on April 13, 2009, to eliminate the entire planning department and lay off the whole planning staff. Planning Division responsibilities were later contracted out to the consulting firm Metropolitan Planning Group, which re-hired some of the former planning staff and continues to operate planning services for the city.
In the late 1990s, Petaluma was also known as Telecom Valley due to the telecom startup companies that seemed to multiply from one another, and offer great riches for early stockholders and employees.
Balshaw Bridge crosses the turning watershed of the Petaluma River Petaluma has a total region of 14.5 sq mi (37.6 km2).
Petaluma is situated at the northernmost navigable end of the Petaluma River, a tidal estuary that snakes southward to San Pablo Bay.
The National Weather Service's cooperative station in Petaluma had a record high temperature of 110 F (43 C) on June 2, 1960.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Petaluma had a populace of 57,941.
The ethnic makeup of Petaluma was 46,566 (80.4%) White, 801 (1.4%) African American, 353 (0.6%) Native American, 2,607 (4.5%) Asian (1.3% Chinese, 0.9% Filipino, 0.8% Asian Indian, 0.4% Japanese, 0.3% Vietnamese, 0.2% Korean, 0.1% Pakistani, 0.1% Laotian, 0.1% Thai), 129 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 5,103 (8.8%) from other competitions, and 2,382 (4.1%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 13,455 citizens (23.2%) under the age of 18, 4,589 citizens (7.9%) aged 18 to 24, 15,041 citizens (26.0%) aged 25 to 44, 17,273 citizens (29.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 7,583 citizens (13.1%) who were 65 years of age or older.
Amy's Kitchen, Calix, Camel - Bak, Clover Stornetta Farms, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Petaluma Poultry and Athleta Inc.
Are based in Petaluma.
1 Petaluma City School District 1,250 2 Petaluma Valley Hospital 536 4 Petaluma Poultry Processors 425 8 City of Petaluma 265 Coast Guard operates Training Center Petaluma just outside Petaluma, near Two Rock.
It operates a several of its class "A" and "C" schools at TRACEN Petaluma including the Electronics Technician (ET), Food Service Specialist (FS), Health Service Technician (HS), Information Systems Technician (IT), Operation Specialist (OS), Storekeeper (SK), and Yeoman (YN) schools.
The California National Guard operates an armed forces facility in Petaluma, at 580 Vallejo Street.
Lying above the town/city of Petaluma on the northwest flank of Sonoma Mountain is the Fairfield Osborn Preserve, a nature reserve with a range of native flora and fauna.
The mayor of Petaluma is David Glass, who was formerly the vice mayor, and on the Planning Commission from 1999 until his election as mayor in November 2002. The other six council members are Kathy Miller (Vice Mayor), Chris Albertson, Teresa Barrett, Mike Healy, Gabe Kearney, and Dave King.
In the California State Legislature, Petaluma is in the 3rd Senate District, represented by Democrat Bill Dodd, and the 10th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Marc Levine. In the United States House of Representatives, Petaluma is split between California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman, and California's 5th congressional district, represented by Democrat Mike Thompson. Public schools are managed by the Petaluma City School District.
There are two elected high schools in Petaluma: Petaluma High School and Casa Grande High School, whose athletic squads are known as the Trojans and Gauchos in the order given.
The two Petaluma enhance middle schools are Kenilworth Junior High School and Petaluma Junior High School.
Vincent de Paul High School, a Roman Catholic private school, is in Petaluma, and its athletic squads are known as the Mustangs.
Santa Rosa Junior College has a second ground in Petaluma, and the ground the unaccredited art school/atelier l'Atelier aux Couleurs is positioned in Petaluma.
Harvest Christian School is a Classical and Christian private school in Petaluma, serving grades K-8. Other primary streets include East Washington Street, North and South Mc - Dowell Boulevards, and Petaluma Boulevard.
Petaluma is served by Petaluma Transit, Golden Gate Transit and by Sonoma County Transit bus services.
The Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) rail line projected to inaugurate service in 2017 will serve Petaluma Downtown station, adjoining to the historic Northwestern Pacific Railroad depot near Washington Street.
A second station, Petaluma North, is a prepared for future assembly and service.
General aviation is served by the Petaluma Municipal Airport.
In the computer game Sim City 2000, "Petaluma" is incessantly a neighboring improve to the town/city that the player builds.
The Petaluma City Ballet was established in 1981 and is the only county-wide ballet business in the City of Petaluma and the Sonoma County area.
A musical piece called And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma, inspired by a garden in Petaluma, was created by Harry Partch in 1963.
Petaluma is briefly mentioned by a suitor in the 1971 comedy film Harold and Maude.
In the Peanuts comics series, Snoopy the beagle trains for an arm wrestling event in Petaluma (but is disqualified because he has no thumb).
In their song "Days of the Phoenix" from their September 2000 album titled The Art of Drowning, the punk modern band AFI makes reference to the Phoenix Theater on Washington Street in downtown Petaluma, a venue the band used to play on a regular basis.
Petaluma has served as a locale for many primary films and tv commercials, including: American Graffiti (1973) - Sonoma shooting was at Old Adobe Road, Frates Road, Petaluma Blvd., Gilardi's Baitshop on Bodega Avenue for the liquor store scene, Petaluma High School, and the downtown parking lot for the police car scene (also San Rafael and Tamalpais High School in Marin County).
Heroes (1977) - Locations include Petaluma, California Petaluma Raceway.
Cujo (1983) - Locations include Petaluma, Santa Rosa and Mendocino.
Explorers (1985) - Locations include Petaluma.
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) - Locations at Santa Rosa High School and Petaluma.
Basic Instinct (1992) - Three-day shoot in Petaluma and Rohnert Park, with other scenes in Carmel and San Francisco.
Scream (1996) - Locations include Santa Rosa and Petaluma.
Flubber (1997) - Church scene filmed partially at Open Door Christian church in Petaluma.
Pleasantville (1998) - Filmed at intersection of Petaluma Boulevard and Western Avenue.
Petaluma held the world wrist wrestling championships from 1952 to 2003, of which Hub "20 Pounds of Chicken a Day" Richmond won 19 times.
(The championships were moved to Reno, Nevada in 2004 due to a lack of sponsorship; the 2007 finals were held in Bulgaria.) In the comic strip Peanuts, Snoopy aspired to be a champion arm-wrestler (or "wrist-wrestler," as they were then called) and was shown in a series of 1968 comic strips headed for Petaluma.
Petaluma received nationwide attention when 12-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her home at knifepoint on October 1, 1993, and later raped and murdered by Richard Allen Davis.
Petaluma hosts a "Butter and Egg Days Parade" in April of each year, celebrating its tradition as the "Egg Basket to the World" and dairy production. In the 2012 Little League World Series, the Petaluma National All-Stars became the first Northern California team in the Little League World Series since Aptos in 2002. The team rather than in 3rd place.
In 2013 The Petaluma Leghorns American Legion baseball team rather than second out of over 4,500 US American Legion squads at the American Legion World Series played in Shelbyville, NC.
Petaluma's number one booster and founder of the World Wrist Wrestling Championship and various other affairs.
- From a tribute statue and plaque in downtown Petaluma.
Petaluma Gap Petaluma Reservoir Petaluma Transit Petaluma Wildlife Museum United States Post Office (Petaluma, California) a b "Petaluma City Council".
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"Petaluma Quickfacts from the US Enumeration Bureau".
"Petaluma (a town/city in Northern California) would be understood in Siberia even today," he said.
Michael Hogan, Ballard George et al., Environmental Impact Report for the Petaluma General Plan, prepared by Earth Metrics Inc.
"A City Of A Million Hens: How Poultry Raising Conducted As A Business Has Made Petaluma Known Over The World".
Shigley, Paul, "Petaluma Eliminates Its Planning Department", California Planning & Development Report, April 14, 2009 "PETALUMA AP, CALIFORNIA - Climate Summary".
"2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Petaluma city".
Petaluma City, California - Fact Sheet - American Fact - Finder (Census.gov) City of Petaluma CAFR Retrieved March 16, 2013 Harvest Christian School Petaluma.
"Petaluma ballplayers chase world title".
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