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Mission Santa Barbara (Spanish: Misión de Santa Bárbara) is a Spanish mission in Santa Barbara, California, United States.Often referred to as the 'Queen of the Missions', it was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén for the Franciscan order on December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission of what would later become 21 missions in Alta California.
Presidio of Santa Barbara. El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara, also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, is a former military installation in Santa Barbara, California, United States. The presidio was built by Spain in 1782, with the mission of defending the Second Military District in California. In modern times, the Presidio serves ...
The Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library was founded in 1967 as an independent, non-profit educational and research institution. [1] The collection of mission documents in the archive-library remain in situ from the founding of the mission system. [2] The collections include named sections, the Junipero Serra Collection (1713-1947), the ...
According to the accounts of Father Estévan Tapís of Mission Santa Barbara, some thirty-two Native American males were required to make 500 tiles each day, while the women carried sand and straw to the pits. [15] The mixture was first worked in pits under the hoofs of animals, then placed on a flat board and fashioned to the correct thickness ...
Picture file card lists the map as coming from the book "The Early Days of Santa Barbara" by Walter A. Hawley, published in 1920.; The roads shown are: Mission Road, Los Olvios Street, Garden Street, Padre Street, Laguna Street, and New Mission Street.
13 [4] The 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake hit the area of Santa Barbara, California on June 29, with a moment magnitude between 6.5 [1] and 6.8 [3] and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of IX (Violent). It resulted in 13 deaths and destroyed the historic center of the city, with damage estimated at $8 million (about $111 million in 2017).
Juana Maria. Juana Maria (died October 19, 1853), better known to history as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island (her Native American name is unknown), was a Native Californian woman who was the last surviving member of her tribe, the Nicoleño. She lived alone on San Nicolas Island off the coast of Alta California from 1835 until her removal ...
August 27, 2024 at 6:00 AM. The house, a French palace on a Santa Barbara bluff, stands as undisturbed as a crime scene, a pair of unstrung harps in the music room, china laid out on the dinner ...