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History – discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented.

I was trying to find an article in a similar style as the word Chronology does not seem to a common title. I thought this page might be titled Outline of History of Ventura County by period. as the outline was prepared as an overview of and topical guide to articles on the history of Ventura County. I noticed that timelines were created for cities but I didn't see any for counties. The Timeline of Oakland, California has a list of other ones is California but I am not sure Timeline of Ventura County, California would work.

I also saw the List of sites of interest in Philadelphia (Sites of interest in Boston) and thought that might be better than trying to keep it chronological so I created List of sites of interest in Ventura County, California

Category:Locally designated landmarks in the United States includes landmarks officially designated by local city or county governments. This type could be used for Ventura County. Rather than a list, I would go with a Category and an article with the same name such as the following:

Prehistory and Indigenous peoples

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  • Earliest people arrived some 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. Earliest identifiable culture, called the Milling Stone Horizon or Oak Grove people, dates from 7,000 years ago.
  • Burro Flats Painted Cave, Simi Hills, NRHP
  • Calleguas Creek Site, NRHP
  • Chumash Park "Indian Hills," Simi, County Landmark # 89
  • Oakbrook County Park Archaeological Area, Thousand Oaks, County Landmark # 90
  • Shisholop Village Site: Ventura Point of Interest #18

European Exploration (1542 –1781)

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Mission Era begins 1782

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Californios from Spain and Mexico (1800 - 1847)

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Spanish concessions (grazing rights - no private property)

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  • Rancho Simi (1795) Pico
  • Rancho El Conejo (1803 and 1822)
  • Severe earthquakes damage California missions (1812)
  • Coast threatened by pirates (1818)
  • Spanish Royal Rule in California ends

Mexican Rancho Period (1833-1847)

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California Statehood (1848-1868)

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County Land Boom (1869-1886

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Forty-niners and immigrants give farming a try

Railroad arrives (1887)

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Second Land Boom in San Buenaventura (1887-1905)

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Coast Railroad Line through Santa Clara River Valley

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Saticoy founded 1887

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Fillmore founded 1888

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Santa Paula

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  • Union Oil Company Founded (1890) in Santa Paula Hardware Company Block; County Landmark #36; NRHP; CHISL
  • First Schoolhouse in Simi (1890) - Simi Elementary School (1926) County Landmark # 139
  • Norwegian Colony in Conejo Valley (1890)
  • Storke, Mrs. Yda Addis (1891). A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo And Ventura, California. Chicago: Lewis. p. 183. (1891)

Somis founded 1892

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Limoneira

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technically was a rail spot (there was a long spur leading here) but which acquires its name from the Limoneira Ranch, the home base of a huge citrus/avocado growing operation. Their website lists all their properties, totalling some 14,500 acres, and of this property they say,

"The Limoneira/Olivelands Ranch is the original site of the company and consists of approximately 1,744 contiguous acres located just west of Santa Paula, California. There are approximately 1,189 acres of agricultural plantings on this property which consist of approximately 544 acres of lemons, 643 acres of avocados and 2 acres of specialty citrus and other crops."

So I think it is very safe to say this was never a settlement. Limoneira, the company, already has its own article, and there's nothing here salvageable, so I think we can do without this article.

  • Delete or redirect to Santa Paula, California. Limoneira built housing on their land in the late 1990s according to this article, but it seems like it was never considered separate from Santa Paula (and I'm not sure that any of the housing developments were called Limoneira either). In either case, this is another article where I trusted a highway map when I shouldn't have.
    • *Pulling out the history books again, there's no Kevet at all in the Arcadia books ISBN 9780738531243 and ISBN 9781439638347, which isn't too surprising as this is not in Santa Paula, being just outside. Nor is there anything in the 1883 History of Ventura county California at the Internet Archive. A 1920 USDA Bulletin reveals that lemons were shipped from this station, reinforcing the packing plant hypothesis. Further reinforcement comes from a Limoneira Field across the road and a Packing House Road. Which brings us back to ISBN 9781439638347, which has the Limoneira Packinghouse and the Limoneira Ranch. It turns out that Limoneira is notable and we already have it. Why its local railway station on East Telegraph Road was named Kevet is lost to history. I can only guess that it might be related to the McKevett family and the fairly notable Teague-McKevett Ranch, which the mass GNIS importers didn't even know was there, which was settled (as it had worker housing), and which will be settled too. Also note the Teague-McKevett Ranch mentioned there, not actually a part of Santa Paula until recently and also known as East Area 1, which is not only documented in that planning application, but in many things like the 1968 California Historical Society Quarterly, and owned by Charles Collins Teague's and his wife's McKevett Corporation from 1905 until it merged with Limoneira in 1994. There is an East Area 2 as well. Until the recent annexations over the last decade, a lot of this was outwith the borders of Santa Paula. Olivelands Ranch, which originally grew walnuts and not lemons, was in fact owned by C.C. Teague as well, and not actually Limoneira originally, despite the misleading corporate history quoted above. Teague was president of both companies from 1917 onwards. The second Arcadia Press book has a little family picture with C.C. and Harriet McKevett Teague, and that's a fair hint that Charles Collins Teague is notable.
      • Belknap, Michael R. (June 1968). "The Era of the Lemon: A History of Santa Paula, California". California Historical Society Quarterly. 47 (2). University of California Press: 113–140. doi:10.2307/25154283. JSTOR 25154283.
      • Sackman, Douglas Cazaux (2007). "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them". Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520251670.

Haines

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Arcadia Publishing's ISBN 9780738531243 page 86 tells us that this is the Abner Haines Farmstead in Briggs subdivision. The Arcadia books are good guides in this, and what's in the book is mostly about Abner Haines and not about the place where xe lived on West Telegraph Road. This looks to be another rubbish two-sentence GNIS article that is actually a biography in heavy disguise, because in addition to the Arcadia book Abner Haines is in oral histories such as Robert E Clarke's 1936 Narrative of a Native ("Abner Haines was born in Maine. He came to California in 1853 and engaged in mining at Indian Creek on the Middle Yuba. […]"), in the 1883 History of Ventura county California at the Internet Archive, and in a 1938 oral history elsewhere by Maude Haines Henderson, his daughter. The Ventura history is too old to cover much beyond Haines' arrival, however. Oral histories I mistrust, moreover. If there were another 20th/21st century non-oral history, in addition to the Arcadia book, I'd rename and refactor to Abner Haines. But I haven't found one. This person is not nearly as well documented as Edward Field Goltra (AfD discussion), another biography

Moorpark

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    • Gunter, Norma (1969). "Fremontville". The Moorpark Story. Moorpark Chamber of Commerce.
    • Winters, Michael (2016). "Epworth and Fremontville". Moorpark. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781439657355.
    • Sheridan, Solomon Neill (1926). History of Ventura County, California. Vol. 1. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company.
    • Diller, Joseph Silas (1915). Guidebook of the Western United States: Part D. The Shasta Route and Coast Line. Vol. 614. Washington: United States Geological Survey.

Oxnard sugarbeet factory 1899

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Ojai Valley Railroad Era (1898-1917)

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City of Ventura Expansion and Civic Improvement (1906-1920)

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Nordhoff Becomes Ojai (1917-1945)

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Oil and Land Boom of the 1920s (1921-1929)

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Great Depression and World War II (1929-1944)

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Postwar Prosperity and the Ventura Freeway (1945-1961)

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Mid-Century Changes to the Present Day

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References

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  1. ^ "Cemetery Timeline" Restore St. Mary's Cemetery 2004.
  2. ^ Msgr. Francis J. Weber, Archivist. "History of Catholic Cemeteries in Los Angeles". Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2014-04-24. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
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