The City of Rajneeshpuram

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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 first mayor was David Berry Knapp (Sw Krishna Deva). He was sworn in Aug 11, 1982.


references
1) Witness statements of the 1985 investigations
see also
Rajneeshpuram - A one hour documentary by Eric Cain, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)
Rajneeshpuram in the Wikipedia