Download or read book Santa Paula written by Mary Alice Orcutt Henderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa Paula was built on the foundations of citrus cultivation and oil production. Ventura Countys first irrigated 100-acre orange and lemon orchard was planted at Santa Paula in 1874, and the original 1888 harvest was so plentiful and delicious that the Limoneira Ranch Company was incorporated in 1893 and continues to thrive. Oil seeps brought wildcatters, and Californias first gusher came in at Santa Paula in 1888. The towns twin notorieties through the 20th century were its designation as the citrus capital of the world and as the birthplace of the Union Oil Company of California (UNOCAL). Lemons and avocados remain the primary tree crops, the oil fields still produce, and the small-town character of bygone days has been preservedSanta Paula has the largest concentration of vintage structures in the county.
Download or read book Santa Paula written by Mary Alice Orcutt Henderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visual history of the 20th centurys middle decades in Santa Paula illustrates how a rural city settled into its middle age. As a sequel to Images of America: Santa Paula, which covered the pioneering and settlement years of 1870 to 1930, it continues this Ventura County citys story through the Depression decade and the World War II and Korean War home front years that led up to the sixties. The time from 1930 to 1960 was prosperous for the two main industries in Santa Paula and its environs: citrus cultivation and oil production. The population increases reflected the job opportunities that these industries presented, bringing other families, businesses, and opportunities to the growing city.
Download or read book The Oaks of Santa Paula written by Mitch Stone and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oaks of Santa Paula, A History of Santa Paula Canyon and the Oaks Neighborhood, offers a detailed look at the history of this distinctive part of the city, as set within the history of lower Santa Paula Canyon and the city as a whole. The narrative begins with the pioneering settlements of the 1870s, and the key role the canyon played in the successful establishment of the town, and carries though to the transforming events of the 1920s, as the canyon began to be converted into the city's first suburb and beyond to its building out in the postwar years to become the neighborhood we know today as the Oaks.
Download or read book Santa Paula written by Santa Paula Board of Trade (Calif.). and published by . This book was released on 1907* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Santa Paula Creek Flood Control Project General Reevaluation Report Ventura County written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Francis Dam Disaster written by John Nichols and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minutes before midnight on the evening of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed. The dam's 200-foot concrete wall crumpled, sending billions of gallons of raging flood waters down San Francisquito Canyon, sweeping 54 miles down the Santa Clara River to the sea, and claiming over 450 lives in the disaster. Captured here in over 200 images is a photographic record of the devastation caused by the flood, and the heroic efforts of residents and rescue workers. Built by the City of Los Angeles' Bureau of Water Works and Supply, the failure of the St. Francis Dam on its first filling was the greatest American civil engineering failure of the 20th century. Beginning at dawn on the morning after the disaster, stunned local residents picked up their cameras to record the path of destruction, and professional photographers moved in to take images of the washed-out bridges, destroyed homes and buildings, Red Cross workers giving aid, and the massive clean-up that followed. The event was one of the worst disasters in California's history, second only to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
Download or read book City of Santa Paula General Plan written by Santa Paula (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo and Ventura California written by Yda Addis Storke and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finny and the Boy from Horse Mountain written by Andrea Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of the high-stakes and intensely competitive equestrian sport of show jumping, Finny, a fifteen-year-old girl in California, adopts an emaciated, untrained horse without her parents' knowledge. Soon after adopting Sky, Finny meets Joe, a sixteen-year-old, who has run away from his cruel uncle in Montana. His love for horses and desire to be a trainer matches Finny's dream of competing in the show jumping arena—against rich girls on fancier horses—and together, they train Sky to become a first-rate show jumper. But the path is fraught with danger. Sky is not like other horses and is so destructive and difficult he gets them kicked out of the barn where Finny has been working and training. Helped by a kind woman who owns a horse rescue, Joe is able to prove both his and Sky's incredible talents. When Joe is kidnapped by his violent uncle, Finny and Sky are the only ones who can save him. In a breathtaking finale, Sky and Finny must enter the underworld of the rodeo circuit, an after-hours, illegal race, where they will risk their lives to save the boy they love. Young demonstrates a masterful ability to set a breakneck pace and keep it up until the end of the novel. Finny and Joe are enduring characters who are sure to appear in upcoming sequels.
Download or read book Decisions written by California Public Utilities Commission and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Santa Paula written by Mary Alice Orcutt Henderson and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa Paula was built on the foundations of citrus cultivation and oil production. Ventura County's first irrigated 100-acre orange and lemon orchard was planted at Santa Paula in 1874, and the original 1888 harvest was so plentiful and delicious that the Limoneira Ranch Company was incorporated in 1893 and continues to thrive. Oil seeps brought wildcatters, and California's first gusher came in at Santa Paula in 1888. The town's twin notorieties through the 20th century were its designation as the "citrus capital of the world" and as the birthplace of the Union Oil Company of California (UNOCAL). Lemons and avocados remain the primary tree crops, the oil fields still produce, and the small-town character of bygone days has been preserved--Santa Paula has the largest concentration of vintage structures in the county.
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of California written by California. State Banking Department and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hiking and Backpacking Santa Barbara and Ventura written by Craig R. Carey and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named for the Spanish padres who established a network of missions along California's southern and central coasts, the Los Padres National Forest is the second-largest National Forest in the state, encompassing approximately 1,950,000 acres - nearly half of which is federally-designated wilderness. Hiking and Backpacking Santa Barbara and Ventura fills a huge gap in coverage of this great hiking and backpacking destination, leading the reader through the varied terrain of the forest's southern districts, from the fern-clad grottoes of the Santa Barbara frontcountry to the sweeping vistas and granite-clad ridges of the Chumash Wilderness.No other guide covers the region in such detail, and not since Dennis Gagnon's near-legendary guides in the 70s and 80s has the Santa Barbara (and Ventura) backcountry been given the guidebook treatment ... but this book goes even further. Every official trail (and many use trails) in the Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Mt. Pinos districts are covered here, including those in the southern San Rafael Wilderness, Dick Smith Wilderness, Matilija Wilderness, Sespe Wilderness, Chumash Wilderness, the Santa Ynez Recreation Area, Rose Valley, the Santa Barbara and Montecito frontcountry, the Ojai frontcountry, and the Santa Paula/Fillmore frontcountry.
Download or read book History of Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties California written by Charles Montville Gidney and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land of Sunshine written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America.
