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Street Names of Santa Barbara

Neal Graffy

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Description:In 1851 the Town Council of Santa Barbara appointed a committee to apply names to the fifty-two new streets being created from "...the front of the Mission Gardens to the sea and from hill to hill on each side..." as a result of the survey of Salisbury Haley. Unlike other towns whose streets bore the unimaginative A-Z, numbers, trees or names of presidents, they gave names to our streets that portrayed the geography and botany of our town, honored the Chumash, early settlers, governors, and showed a distinct sense of humor and in some cases, delightful sarcasm. Author and local historian Neal Graffy shares with us the stories behind these names.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Street Names of Santa Barbara. To get started finding Street Names of Santa Barbara, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 52

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: El Barbareño Publishing

Release: 2008

ISBN: 0982163606

Description: In 1851 the Town Council of Santa Barbara appointed a committee to apply names to the fifty-two new streets being created from "...the front of the Mission Gardens to the sea and from hill to hill on each side..." as a result of the survey of Salisbury Haley. Unlike other towns whose streets bore the unimaginative A-Z, numbers, trees or names of presidents, they gave names to our streets that portrayed the geography and botany of our town, honored the Chumash, early settlers, governors, and showed a distinct sense of humor and in some cases, delightful sarcasm. Author and local historian Neal Graffy shares with us the stories behind these names.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Street Names of Santa Barbara. To get started finding Street Names of Santa Barbara, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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