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Thousand Oaks was part of Rancho El Conejo, owned by Don José de la Guerra y Noriega, founder of the prominent Guerra family of California. E.S. Newbury was one of the first to buy former Rancho El Conejo land. [31] From 1804 to 1848, Thousand Oaks was part of Alta California, which originally was a Spanish polity in North America. It was the ...
The Purgatoire River rises in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains reaching an elevation of 14,053 ft (4,283 m) at Culebra Peak.The river, formed by many upstream tributaries, flows eastwards for about 40 miles (64 km) through the mountains and foothills to Trinidad at an elevation of 6,010 ft (1,830 m) where it turns to the northeast and flows across the Great Plains through ...
This is an incomplete list of films shot in City of Thousand Oaks in the U.S. state of California. Several productions made use of the unusual appearance of the old Thousand Oaks Civic Center. It was the building that housed Proteus IV in the 1977 movie 'Demon Seed', and the bunker Steve Austin crossed a mine field to reach in a Season 2 ...
Jungleland USA was a private zoo, animal training facility, and animal theme park in Thousand Oaks, California, United States, on the current site of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. [1] At its peak the facility encompassed 170 acres (69 ha).
Ventura Farms, formally known as Deerwood Stock Farm and Kentucky Park Farms, is a historic estate that is located in the Hidden Valley near Thousand Oaks, California. [1] [2] [3] Known for being a film location, the 2,200-acre (890 ha) ranch has been featured in a number of Western films and is still used for filming.
The cities of Fillmore, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks have the county Cultural Heritage Board advise them and those designations are listed here. [1] The cities of Moorpark , Ojai , Santa Paula , and Ventura established their own separate historic designation systems with the City of Ventura Historic Landmarks and ...
Conejo Mountain is a 1,814-foot-high mountain (553 m) in Ventura County, California, near Camarillo on the eastern boundary of the Oxnard Plain. [1] [2] [3] At the western edge of the Conejo Valley, it is adjacent to the Santa Monica Mountains.
Chumash Indian Museum is a Native American Interpretive Center in northeast Thousand Oaks, California. It is the site of a former Chumash village, known as Sap'wi (meaning "House of the Deer"). [1] It is located in Oakbrook Regional Park, a 432-acre park which is home to a replica of a Chumash village and thousand year-old Chumash pictographs ...