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Sonoma is a historic city in the Sonoma Valley of Sonoma County, at the heart of California Wine Country.

Mission San Francisco Solano was founded in Sonoma on July 4, 1823, by Padre José Altimira — the 21st, last and northernmost of California's missions, and the only one founded after Mexico won independence from Spain.

The mission was secularized in 1834, and in 1835 General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo laid out the Pueblo de Sonoma around an eight-acre plaza that remains the largest town plaza in California.

In 1836, Vallejo established the Presidio of Sonoma and the Sonoma Barracks on the plaza, making Sonoma the northernmost Mexican military outpost in California.

On June 14, 1846, American settlers raised the Bear Flag in Sonoma Plaza and proclaimed the California Republic, with Sonoma as its capital; the republic lasted only 25 days, until the U.S. flag was raised at the Barracks on July 9, 1846.

The grizzly-and-star Bear Flag created in Sonoma later became the basis of California's state flag, officially adopted in 1911.

Sonoma was first incorporated as a city on April 4, 1850 — months before California became a state — then was unincorporated in 1862 at Vallejo's urging and re-incorporated on September 3, 1883.

Sonoma was the original seat of Sonoma County until the county seat was moved to Santa Rosa in 1854.

Hungarian immigrant Agoston Haraszthy founded Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma in 1857, California's first premium commercial winery, earning him the title 'Father of California Viticulture.'

In 1858, Jacob Gundlach planted the Rhinefarm vineyard east of Sonoma, the predecessor of today's Gundlach Bundschu Winery, which the Bundschu family still operates.