Santa Barbara City Historical Markers

Map of California State Historical Marker Locations in the City of Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara City Historical Markers

Santa Barbara Churches Mission Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Mission was founded December 4, 1786. Portions of five units of its extensive waterworks, built by Indian labor and preserved in this pa... [click for more] Santa Barbara Courthouse Santa Barbara County Courthouse The Santa Barbara County Courthouse was constructed in 1929 and is a complex of four buildings occupying an entire city block in downtown Santa Barbar... [click for more] Santa Barbara General Interest Burton Mound Thought to have once been the Indian village of Syujtun, this site has yielded some of the most important archeological evidence found in California. ... [click for more] Carrillo Adobe Daniel Hill of Massachusetts built this adobe about 1825 for his bride, Rafaela L. Ortega y Olivera. She was the granddaughter of José Francisc... [click for more] Casa De La Guerra A common council was duly elected near this site on August 26, 1850, two weeks before California statehood. The City of Santa Barbara held its first o... [click for more] Covarrubias Adobe The adobe was built by Indian labor in 1817 for Don Domingo Carrillo. In 1838, his daughter married Don José María Covarrubias, who in 1... [click for more] Hastings Adobe Built in 1854 by Captain Horatio Gates Trussell of Orland, Maine, the adobe is partly constructed of material from the wreck of the S.S. Winfield Scot... [click for more] Old Lobero Theatre José Lobero opened the region's first legitimate theatre on this site on February 22, 1873. For many years the old theatre was the center of so... [click for more] Royal Spanish Presidio This presidio was established April 19-21, 1782 by Governor Felipe de Neve, Padre Junípero Serra, and Lieutenant José Francisco Ortega, ... [click for more]