Download or read book Ventura County California History 1782 1917 written by Edwin M. Sheridan and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on several books published between 1890 and 1917; but mostly from the book, History Of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties California. Sheridan, who wrote the Ventura section, was a Ventura County Pioneer and a partner with the "Signal Newspaper", Ventura's first newspaper. Ventura was a part of the Santa Barbara County. On April 13, 1875, final settlement was effected with Santa Barbara County under the terms of the Act of March 22, 1872.The time of the founding of the mission may be traced the beginning of Ventura County. This was on March 31, 1782. San Buenaventura, the County seat, in the beginning had more than one name. Indeed, there were no less than three names given the locality before the advent of Father Junipero Serra, the Franciscan founder of the Mission church. To begin with the Indians of the neighborhood called the place Zucu. What the meaning of this word is has never been learned. The Indian tribes in California were small and there was a wide diversity in the languages of the several tribes, and tracing the meaning of Indian words has always puzzled those who delve into such things. The expedition under Don Rodriguez called the place Pueblo de las Canoes. And later, the overland expedition of Gaspar Portola, traveling from San Diego to locate Monterey, named the place Asuncion de Nuestra Senora. The latter found the native Indians busy at boat-making and reported that many of them took to the sea and traveled the channel waters between the mainland and the islands. It was Father Serra who gave the name San Buenaventura to the location. This was in honor of the Seraphic Doctor and friend of Saint Francis, the founder of the Order of Friars Minor.—The beginnings of an American settlement in a new country are always interesting to succeeding generations and we owe it to them that the annals and the traditions of the Pioneers should be recorded. —T.R. Bard, August 31, 1907
Download or read book History of Ventura County California written by Solomon Neill Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ventura written by Glenda J. Jackson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The county seat of Ventura County traces its history back to 1782 and the founding of Mission San Buenaventura. The "City of Good Fortune" incorporated in 1866 and today numbers more than 110,000 residents.
Download or read book Ventura County written by Judith P. Triem and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Ventura County State of California written by Elizabeth Kreisher Ritter and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ventura County Looking Back written by Don Scott and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Contra Costa County California written by Frederick J. Hulaniski and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ventura County written by Carina Monica Montoya and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ventura County has its roots in the founding of Mission San Buenaventura during the Spanish era (1769-1821). During the Mexican era (1822-1846), expansive mission lands were divided and granted out as ranchos for individual landownership to those with political influence and to former soldiers for loyal service during the war. When California became a state in 1850, settlers, prospectors, and developers began to purchase rancho lands. Ventura County became one of the most productive agricultural and oil-rich lands in the state and country. Farmland dominated much of the county's landscape in the early years--oranges were its most popular fruit, and sugar beets were its prized commodity. Although the county still has an agricultural landscape in many of its cities and towns, the county is a patchwork of farms, islands, high-tech businesses, and military defense installations. It is as diverse as its people.
Download or read book The History of Contra Costa County California written by Frederick J. Hulaniski and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... ton. He is a man of enterprise and keen foresight. He is among the early settlers worthy of representation in the history of his chosen county, and has been actively identified with the development of the eastern part of the county for many years. Mr. Preston was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1837. He received his education in the public school of his native State, and was reared on a farm. In 1864 he came west via the Isthmus of Panama and found employment at ranching in Nevada. On election day, 1864, he came to California, and in 1865 he located in eastern Contra Costa County. When he located on his present farm there were no houses between his place and Antioch. Mr. Preston was united in marriage to Melissa Woodard, a native of Pennsylvania, in October, 1859, and her death occurred on February 1, 1917. To this union there were seven children--Francis M., born January 23, 1861, married Ida Buress of Bay Point, and their two children are Marion and Lloyd; Eva Sarah, born October 23, 1869, was united in marriage to Frank M. May, and their children are Marjorie and Evelyn; Rosa May, born February 13, 1872, and married George Daunt of Petaluma, and they have one daughter, Dorothea; Ida, wife of W. H. Engle, of Oakland, was born November 20, 1873; Jennie, born November 10, 1875, and died September 8, 1902; Bertha Anna, born March 8, 1879, and married Leslie V. Richardson on August 27, 1902, and has two children, Reginald and Gwendolyn; Mott C., born July 16, 1882, and married Winifred Shafer on October 12, 1904. Mr. Preston has always been energetic and ambitious, and is a typical representative of a self-made man, and has always had the respect and esteem of his fellow-men. In 1904 Mr. Preston retired, and has spent...
Download or read book Ventura County History Stories written by Ventura County Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Ventura County written by Ventura County Schools and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Ventura County written by William Wilcox Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Pictorial History of Ventura County California written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ventura County written by Edwin Earl Hampton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ventura County written by Tim Hauf and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
