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The City of Sebastopol is a small town located 50 miles north of San Francisco, and about 10 miles from Bodega Bay, on the Northern Californian coastline. Sebastopol currently has a population of around 7,800 people. Sebastopol is famous for its Gravenstein apples and more recently has become a significant grape-growing region for high quality wines. Sebastopol along with its surrounding countryside is a place of great beauty with vineyards, apple orchards, redwood groves, streams and other natural features. Sebastopol is also the gateway to the popular Russian River and coastal recreation areas.

Sebastopol’s first known inhabitants were the native Miwok and Pomo peoples. In the 1850’s the town of Sebastopol was established as a small trade centre for the farmers in the surrounding region. As California’s population grew because of the westward migration and the Gold Rush of the 1850’s, more and more settlers drifted into the valleys north of San Francisco to try their hand at farming.

The name “Sebastopol” first came into use in the late 1850’s as a result of a lengthy fistfight in the town, which was likened to the long British siege of the Russian seaport of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. Evidently, many Americans sympathized more for the Russian than for the British cause as there were at one time four other Sebastopol’s in California.