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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.
The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, one of the city's main tourist attractions, was completed in 1929. World War II brought sweeping change to the Santa Barbara area. The U.S. Marines took up residence on the high ground adjacent to Goleta Point, current location of the University of California, Santa Barbara campus.
Drawing of the presidio of early Santa Barbara, ca.1839. 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.
Mission Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara: 1820 Mission The mission was rebuilt four times between 1786 and 1820. [44] Casa de Carrillo: San Diego: 1821 Residence Oldest residence in San Diego. [45] Mission San Miguel Arcángel: San Miguel: 1821 Church The original church burned down in 1806 and was rebuilt out of adobe from 1816 to 1821. [46 ...
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
Santa Barbara, a 2014 South Korean film "Santa Bárbara bendita", a traditional song of the Asturian coal miners "Santa Barbara", a 1978 song by Ronnie Milsap, b-side of "Back on My Mind Again" Santa Barbara, a fictional nation, a setting of the novel Sard Harker
The Santa Barbara County area, including the Northern Channel Islands, was first settled by Native Americans at least 13,000 years ago.Evidence for a Paleoindian presence has been found in the form of a fluted Clovis-like point found in the 1980s along the western Santa Barbara Coast, as well as the remains of Arlington Springs Man found on Santa Rosa Island in the 1960s.
In 1953, the state purchased another private campground and created El Capitán State Beach. [8] Congress ordered a study in 1999 for a proposed 76-mile-long (122 km) National Seashore from Coal Oil Point at UC Santa Barbara to Point Sal at the northern boundary of Vandenberg Space Force Base. [9]