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The California Register program promotes the public acknowledgment and safeguarding of resources possessing architectural, historical, archaeological, and cultural significance. It plays a role in identifying historical resources for both state and local planning, assessing eligibility for state historic preservation grant funding, and ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is a U.S. state or territorial governmental function described by the United States federal government in 1966 under Section 101 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). [1]
The team is tasked with undertaking “comprehensive modernization and reinvention of the troubled California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and make recommendations for new long-term leadership and reform at DMV – with an emphasis on transparency, worker performance, speed of service and overall consumer satisfaction.” [5] The team was ...
Bard is an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California, United States, located along County Route S24. [1] It lies at an elevation of 138 feet (42 m). [1] Bard is home to the Imperial Date Gardens. Bard was created in 1910 after the eastern part of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation was declared surplus under the Dawes Act.
In 1784, the Spanish Crown deeded Rancho San Pedro, a tract of over 75,000 acres (300 km 2), to retired soldier Juan José Domínguez, who helped explore California with the Portolá expedition in 1769–1770. Rancho San Pedro was the first land grant in the Alta California portion of the Province of Las Californias in New Spain.
California is divided into counties which are legal subdivisions of the state. [25] There are 58 counties, 482 California cities, [26] about 1,102 school districts, [27] and about 3,400 special districts. [28]
California State University, San Bernardino was created by the state legislature on April 29, 1960, as the San Bernardino-Riverside State College. Later, the California State College system's board of trustees chose a 440-acre (180 ha) site in the city of San Bernardino.