User:Adflatuss/Chronology of Ventura County

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.
 * Outline of History of California

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:
 * Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument that could always be expanded but would not have to be all inclusive.
 * Category:Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments


 * Historical Markers: HMdb.org

Prehistory and Indigenous peoples

 * 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)

 * Expedition led by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo anchored in an inlet (1542)
 * Portolà expedition (1769) - Spanish overland expedition were the first Europeans to see inland areas of California, came down the Santa Clara River Valley, stops in Piru  and camped in the vicinity of Santa Paula.
 * Piru marker
 * Santa Paula marker

Mission Era begins 1782

 * San Miguel Chapel Site Ventura Landmark #16; NRHP
 * Hill of the Cross CHISL
 * San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct (1780 ~ 1790) NRHP; CHISL
 * Old Mission Reservoir NRHP; CHISL
 * Mission San Buenaventura (1792-1809) Ventura Landmark #10; NRHP includes Mission Compound Site; CHISL

Spanish concessions (grazing rights - no private property)

 * 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)

 * Mexican Secularization Act opens California to world trade (1833)
 * Rancho Sespe (1833)
 * Rancho Las Posas (1834)
 * Rancho Ojai (1834)
 * Rancho El Rincon (1835)
 * Rancho Guadalasca (1836)
 * Rancho Calleguas (1837)
 * Rancho Ojai (1837)
 * Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia (1837)
 * Rancho Santa Clara del Norte (1837)
 * Rancho Santa Ana (1837)
 * Rancho Guadalupe (1840)
 * Rancho San Miguel(1841)
 * Olivas Adobe Ventura Landmark #1; NRHP; CHISL
 * Rancho Cañada Larga o Verde (1841)
 * Rancho Simi (1842) Guerra y Noriega
 * Rancho Temescal (1843)
 * Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy (1843)
 * Rancho Cañada de San Miguelito (1846)
 * Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura (1846)
 * Frémont with about 400 men and six field pieces, disperses a force of 60-70 Californio Lancers near the San Buenaventura Mission. (January 5 1847)
 * Mexican Cession (1848)

California Statehood (1848-1868)

 * Cattle ranching benefits from the California Gold Rush initially by helping meet the new demand for their products
 * Disastrous droughts in the late 1850s and early 1860s drastically reduce numbers of cattle
 * Ortega Adobe (1855-57) Ventura Landmark #1 (CA VEN 785H) . The west half of the adobe was washed away by the floods of 1862 and rebuilt using the original roof tiles from  the  Mission  San  Buenaventura.
 * De la Guerra Adobe (Rancho El Conejo) (1860) begins being sold off
 * Rancho Camulos (1861) NHL; NRHP; CHISL
 * James Saviers bought property in Rancho Colonia on the Oxnard Plain (1862)
 * Thomas R. Bard represents oil exploration interests 1864~65
 * California oil and gas industry (also see Oil and Land Boom of the 1920s (1921-1929) below
 * History of oil in California through 1930
 * St. Mary's Cemetery (3.69 acres) in Ventura was acquired by Bishop Thaddeus Amat (1862) (blessed 1884)
 * Dixie W. Thompson acquires west half of Rancho San Miguel (1864)
 * Town of Ventura Incorpores (1866
 * Stagecoach established (1868)

County Land Boom (1869-1886
Forty-niners and immigrants give farming a try
 * Buckhorn (1869)
 * Hueneme Wharf 1871
 * Ventura Warf established (1872)
 * Commercial district centered on Mission
 * Hospitality
 * Merchants
 * Agriculture
 * American and European Settlement
 * Chinese settlement
 * Santa Paula founded (1872)
 * Ocean View Elementary School District founded with completion of a one-room school house at the corner of Olds and Hueneme roads (1872)
 * Bishop Thaddeus Amat founds the 30-acre Santa Clara Cemetery in Oxnard (1874)
 * Nordhoff founded 1874
 * Town of Nordhoff initial period (1874-1898)
 * New Jerusalem founded 1875
 * Stagecoach Inn, Newbury Park (1876) NRHP (Grand Union Hotel); CHISL
 * Emmanuel Franz House (1879-1891) Ventura Landmark #21; NRHP
 * Juan Camarillo Acquires Rancho Calleguas (1876); Adolfo Camarillo (1880); Camarillo Ranch House (1892) NRHP
 * Rancho El Conejo (1891-1892) ????

Railroad arrives (1887)

 * History of rail transportation in California

Second Land Boom in San Buenaventura (1887-1905)

 * Eastern settlers - Arrival of railroad to Los Angeles and 1886 railroad fare ware brought many people to southern California - The King and Queen of Malibu
 * Ethnic tensions
 * Dudley House (1891) Ventura Landmark #44; NRHP
 * Ventura High School (1889)
 * On to Santa Barbara, Montalvo Cutoff to Oxnard,

Saticoy founded 1887

 * Saticoy, California

Fillmore founded 1888

 * Fillmore, California

Santa Paula

 * 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)
 * (1891)

Somis founded 1892

 * Somis, California
 * Camarillo Ranch House (1892)
 * George Washington Faulkner House (1894); NRHP
 * Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church (1898) County Landmark #50; NRHP
 * Somis Union School District organized (1898)
 * The Del Norte School District, that eventually merged with Center School District had a one-room schoolhouse on Los Angeles Avenue near Santa Clara Avenue. (1890s)?

Limoneira
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 .  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  and  Teague-McKevett Ranch, which the mass GNIS importers didn't even know was there, which was settled (as it had worker housing), and  too. Also note the Teague-McKevett Ranch mentioned there,  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.   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.

Haines
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. [&hellip;]"), in the 1883, 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, another biography

Oxnard sugarbeet factory 1899

 * Moorpark, California - founded 1887 to 1900
 * Oxnard Union High School District (1901)
 * Native Daughter Improvement Club, Ventura (1901) Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXIX, Number 174, 24 March 1902
 * Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital (1902) Ventura Landmark #19; NRHP
 * Feraud General Merchandise Store (1903) Ventura Landmark #35; NRHP
 * Oxnard strike of 1903 Multicultural agricultural labor unrest
 * Ventura Oil Field (1903)
 * Santa Susana Depot; County Landmark #29 opens in 1903 as railroad starts service yet backs out to main line.
 * Santa Susana Tunnel opens (1904) shortening the trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles via Simi, Camarillo, Oxnard.

Ojai Valley Railroad Era (1898-1917)

 * Charles M. Pratt House (1909); NRHP

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

 * 1906 Eastward expansion - Annexation east of Sanjon Barranca including part of the Dixie Thompson Ranch
 * 1909 Beachfront tracts
 * Pierpont Inn (1910) Ventura Landmark #80
 * 1910 Hills above opened for future development
 * Rancho El Conejo 1910
 * Glen Tavern Hotel, Santa Paula (1911); NRHP
 * Ventura County Courthouse (1910-1913) Ventura Landmark #4; NRHP; CHISL
 * Migration of Commercial district away from Mission
 * Rincon causeway and new Ventura River Bridge (1913)
 * St. Mary Magdalen established (1913) to replace wooden chapel.
 * Dabney Oil Syndicate begins drilling in Simi
 * South Mountain Oil Field (1916)

Nordhoff Becomes Ojai (1917-1945)

 * St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel (1918); NRHP

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

 * Thomas Gould, Jr., House (1924); NRHP
 * Ventura College (1925)
 * First Baptist Church of Ventura (1926); Ventura Landmark #17; NRHP
 * Rincon Oil Field (1927)
 * Ventura Theatre (1928); Ventura Landmark #24; NRHP
 * St. Francis Dam Disaster (1928)
 * Arcade Building (mid to late '20s) Ventura Landmark #83; Beginning of the auto sales industry; See Feraud General Merchandise Store

Great Depression and World War II (1929-1944)

 * 1933-1941 Federal Government financed structures
 * Ventura High School (1930) Ventura College opens at site
 * Tidal Lands granted to Ventura by California State Lands Commission (1935)
 * Saticoy School (1939) - Major construction by WPA project.
 * San Miguelito Oil Field (1931)
 * Oxnard Airport (1934)
 * Oxnard Oil Field (1937)
 * Corriganville Movie Ranch (1937)
 * Mesa Union School District The Del Norte School District merges with Center School District. (1937)
 * Naval Base Ventura County revive economy and increases housing shortage (1942)
 * Oxnard Air Force Base (1943) Mistaken info on Mira Loma Fight school needs to be moved to Oxnard Airport

Postwar Prosperity and the Ventura Freeway (1945-1961)

 * Babe Ruth Field
 * Wagon Wheel Motel and Restaurant (1947)
 * Santa Susana Field Laboratory (1947)
 * West Montalvo Oil Field (1947)
 * McGrath State Beach (1948)
 * Ventura Port District (1952) County organizes special district to create Ventura Harbor
 * Ventura College 1955 Moves to Dudley Property
 * Saticoy Oil Field (1955)
 * Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village (1956) begins 25 year project CHISL
 * Sodium Reactor Experiment (1957) - first nuclear reactor in US to produce commercial electrical power for Moorpark
 * Emma Wood State Beach (1957)
 * San Buenaventura State Beach (1961)

Mid-Century Changes to the Present Day

 * Ventura County Community College District (1962)
 * Ventura Harbor (1963)
 * Moorpark College (1967)
 * Simi Valley incorporates 1969
 * Santa Clara Avenue Oil Field (1972)
 * Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge (1974)
 * Oxnard College (1975)
 * Mandalay State Beach (1985)
 * Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (1991)
 * Death of Donald P. Scott during drug enforcement raid (1992)
 * Ventura Intercity Service Transit Authority (1994)
 * Murder of Larry King (2008), a 15-year-old gay student
 * Metrolink passenger train derailed at Oxnard, California (2015)