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Harmony was founded in 1869 around several dairy ranches and a creamery. The operation changed hands repeatedly because of rivalries that led to a killing. In 1907, owners and ranchers agreed to call off their feud and called the town by its present name as a symbol of their truce. The Harmony Valley Dairy Co-op was founded in 1901.
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In 1841, Cadwalader Ringgold, an officer in the United States Navy, spent twenty days surveying the San Francisco Bay watershed as a member of the United States Exploring Expedition In 1849, Cadwalader Ringgold began a more comprehensive survey the San Francisco Bay region, [11] the Sacramento River, and parts of the American and created several maps which included depth sounding information ...
The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w ) or Richter magnitude (M L ) of 7.8; [ 7 ] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [ 8 ]
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The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Located in San Luis Obispo County on Highway 1, the park is the only public access to the coast between the towns of Cayucos and Harmony. The 748-acre (303 ha) park was established in 2003. [1] The Cayucos Land Conservancy helped facilitate and fund the park's development. [2] Harmony Headlands State Park is open for day-use only.