Category:North America/United States of America/California/Petaluma/

Coordinates: 38°14′45″N 122°37′53″W 38.24583, -122.63139

Petaluma

Petaluma is a city in Sonoma County, California, in the United States. It is estimated that the 2006 population was 54,660Located in Petaluma is the Rancho Petaluma Adobe, a National Historic Landmark. It was built beginning in 1836 by General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, then Commandant of the San Francisco Presidio. It was the center of a vast 66,000 acre (270-km) ranch stretching from Petaluma Creek to Sonoma Creek. The adobe is considered one of the best preserved buildings of its era in Northern California.Petaluma is a transliteration of the Coast Miwok phrase pta luma which means hill backside and probably refers to Petaluma's proximity to Sonoma Mountain.Petaluma has a well preserved, historic city center which includes many buildings that survived the great 1906 earthquake.^[1]

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