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Santa Barbara (Spanish: Santa Bárbara, meaning ' Saint Barbara ') is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States excepting Alaska, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
715 Santa Barbara St. c. 1825 1982 Covarrubias Adobe: 715 Santa Barbara St. 1817, 1940 1982 Rochin Adobe 820 Santa Barbara St. 1856, c. 1900 1982 Miranda Adobe and Guard House 802 Anacapa St. Various 1983 Adobe portion only El Paseo and Casa de la Guerra: 808-818 State St., 813-819 Anacapa St., and 9-25 E. de la Guerra St. 1911-24 1928-29 1983
v. t. e. The history of Santa Barbara, California, begins approximately 13,000 years ago with the arrival of the first Native Americans. The Spanish came in the 18th century to occupy and Christianize the area, which became part of Mexico following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, the expanding United States acquired the town along ...
Oldest building in City of San Francisco. The original chapel, built in 1771, was rebuilt out of adobe from 1782 to 1791. Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo. Monterey. 1791-94. Cathedral. Part of the Presidio of Monterey. Oldest stone building in California and the second oldest extant cathedral in the United States. Plaza Hotel.
Location of Santa Barbara County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Barbara County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
Santa Barbara County comprises the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Most of the county is part of the California Central Coast . [ 16 ] Mainstays of the county's economy include engineering, resource extraction (particularly petroleum extraction and diatomaceous earth mining), winemaking, agriculture, and education.
Ryan Church, Major League Baseball player [8] Jimmy Connors, Tennis champion. Kami Craig, Olympic water polo player [9] Randall Cunningham, National Football League player [10] Shawn Dailey, musician. Jay Dee Daugherty, drummer. Marko DeSantis, musician. Dean Dinning, musician, music producer, bassist.
Sunburst, also known as Brotherhood of the Sun, is an intentional community founded in 1969 by Norman Paulsen in Santa Barbara, California. Sunburst began in the late 1960s, inspired by an idea for self-sustaining World Brotherhood Colonies envisioned by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi and author of the 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship.