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Rajneeshpuram was a city incorporated in the state of Oregon, USA between xxxx and xxxx. | Rajneeshpuram was a city incorporated in the state of Oregon, USA between xxxx and xxxx. | ||
The 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. | |||
Revision as of 05:34, 27 August 2016
Rajneeshpuram was a city incorporated in the state of Oregon, USA between xxxx and xxxx.
The 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.
- references
- 1) Witness statements of the 1985 investigations
- see also
- Rajneeshpuram in the Wikipedia