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Occidental is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma County, California, United States. The population was 1,132 at the 2020 census , up from 1,115 at the 2010 census . History
Morningstar Commune (also known as Morning Star Ranch and The Digger Farm) was an active open land counterculture commune in rural Sonoma County, California, located at 12542 Graton Road near Occidental. [1]
This is a list of Sonoma County Landmarks as designated by the Sonoma County's Landmark Commission. [1]It is intended to include all Sonoma County government-designated landmarks in unincorporated areas of Sonoma County, but to exclude landmarks in separately incorporated cities and towns.
Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast of the United States.
Since 2007, the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria has collaborated with Occidental Arts and Ecology in Occidental, California to create workshops called Tradition Environmental Knowledge on organic farming, herbology, native plant restoration, and ethnobotany. [16]
The Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) is a non-profit organization and intentional community located near the town of Occidental in the western part of Sonoma County, California, the traditional homeland of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok.
The 1895 Occidental football team represented Occidental College as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 6–0, including a victory over USC, and outscored opponents by a total of 106 to 6. At the end of the season, the Los Angeles Athletic Club declared Occidental to be the Southern California football ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...