He was impressed by one of the young employees, Thomas R. Vast holdings were later acquired by Easterners, including the railroad magnate, Thomas A. After the American Civil War, settlers came to the area, buying land from the Mexicans, or simply as squatters. Early agricultural development (1848 – 1919) Ĭalifornia became a territory of the United States in 1848 and the 31st state in the Union in 1850. Fernando Tico also received a Mexican land grant for Ojai and a lot near the river in downtown Ventura. Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado granted Rancho San Miguel to Felipe Lorenzana and Raymundo Olivas whose Olivas Adobe on the banks of the Santa Clara River was the most magnificent hacienda south of Monterey. Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura was a 48,823-acre (197.580 km 2) grant that included downtown Ventura. Mission land was sold or given away in large grants called ranchos. The Mexican secularization act of 1833 was passed twelve years after Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821. Historic tours of downtown include the mission compound. The Mission was rebuilt and functions as a parish church. The bell tower and facade of the new mission was destroyed by an 1812 earthquake. The first mission burned in 1801 and a replacement building of brick and stone was completed in 1809. San Miguel Chapel was the first outpost and center of operations while the first Mission San Buenaventura was being constructed.
Bonaventure, a Thirteenth Century Franciscan saint and a Doctor of the Church. Junípero Serra, first leader of the Franciscans in California, founded Mission San Buenaventura in 1782 as his ninth and last mission establish near the Chumash village as part of Spain's colonization of Alta California. Fray Juan Crespi, a Franciscan missionary traveling with the expedition, noted that "we saw a regular town, the most populous and best laid-out of all that we had seen on the journey up to the present time." Archaeological records found that the Chumash village they encountered was settled sometime around 1000 A.D. In 1769, the Spanish Portola expedition, first recorded European visitors to inland areas of California, came down the Santa Clara River Valley from the previous night's encampment near today's Saticoy and camped near the outlet of the Ventura River on August 14. Main article: Spanish missions in California 1.6 Postwar years and the 1950s boom (1946 – present).1.4 Early agricultural development (1848 – 1919).Ventura is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The population was 106,433 at the 2010 census, up from 100,916 at the 2000 census with the median age being 39. During the post–World War II economic expansion, the community grew easterly, building detached single family homes over the rich agricultural land created by the Santa Clara River at the edge of the Oxnard Plain. The highway is now known as the Ventura Freeway, but the original route through the town along Main Street has been designated El Camino Real, the historic pathway connecting the California missions. Route 101 between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, which was one of the original U.S. The mission and these buildings are at the center of a downtown that has become a cultural, retail, and residential district and visitor destination. The development of nearby oil fields in the 1920s and the age of automobile travel created a major real estate boom during which many designated landmark buildings were constructed. The town grew around the mission compound and incorporated in 1866. (p36) The eponymous Mission San Buenaventura was founded nearby in 1782 where it benefitted from the water of the Ventura River. They witnessed the ocean navigation skill of the native people and their use of the abundant local resources from sea and land.
European explorers encountered a Chumash village, referred to as Shisholop, here while traveling along the Pacific coast. The coastal site, set against undeveloped hills and flanked by two free-flowing rivers, has been inhabited for thousands of years.
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