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Sebastopol was originally called Pinegrove, and local lore says it was renamed in the late 1850s after a prolonged bar fight in town was compared by an onlooker to the long British siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War.

Sebastopol formed in the 1850s as a small trade center and post office for farmers on land that had long been home to Coast Miwok and Pomo peoples, and it was incorporated on June 13, 1902.

Sebastopol became known as the "Gravenstein Apple Capital of the World," and it still celebrates that heritage with an annual Apple Blossom Festival in spring and the Gravenstein Apple Fair in August.

A historical profile of Sebastopol credits the area with the world's first applesauce cannery, part of an apple industry that brought the town steady rural prosperity.

World-famous horticulturist Luther Burbank kept experimental gardens in the Sebastopol area, where he developed many of his celebrated plant varieties.

The railroad reached Sebastopol in 1890, and freight trains famously ran straight down Main Street until the tracks were removed in the late 1980s.

The 1906 earthquake reduced most of Sebastopol's early buildings to rubble — the town sits only seven miles from Santa Rosa, the worst-hit city in that quake — but Sebastopol rebuilt.

Sebastopol had a population of 7,521 at the 2020 census, though its shops and services also serve a surrounding rural area of roughly 50,000 people.

Sebastopol has about 3,319 households according to Census QuickFacts for 2020-2024, with small households averaging just 2.20 persons each.

Sebastopol's Analy High School, established in 1908, gained modern fame as a filming location for the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, in which it appears as Liberty High School.