The City of Rajneeshpuram

During the 1983 festival

Rajneeshpuram was a city incorporated in the state of Oregon, USA between 1982 and Dec 10, 1985.

The 2,135 acre city was located on the site of a 64,229-acre (25,993 ha) Central Oregon property known as the "Big Muddy" ranch, which was purchased in 1981 for $5.75 million by the Chidvilas Rajneesh Meditation Center. Within three years, the commune turned the ranch from an empty rural property into a city of up to 7,000 people, complete with typical urban infrastructure such as a fire department, police, restaurants, malls, townhouses, a 1,300 m airstrip, a public transport system using buses, a sewage reclamation plant and a water reservoir. The Rajneeshpuram post office had the ZIP code 97741.

The city's mayor was David Berry Knapp (Sw Krishna Deva).

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references

1) Rajneeshpuram criminal trial documents

see also

Rajneesh Foundation International

Rajneeshpuram - A one hour documentary by Eric Cain, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)

Rajneeshpuram in the Wikipedia