Feb 8th	Santa Barbara CA Neighborhoods – The Westside
2008	Categories: The Westside Neighborhood

The Westside - Santa Barbara The “Westside Story” of Santa Barbara is laid in our city’s first suburb to be initiated by Anglos rather than Hispanics; the Spanish genesis of the city was located on the Eastside. In 1850, when the United States annexed California to the Union, the Westside was open grazing range and farmland, turning marshy near the beach. Today this area is solidly overlaid with urban development extending inland to the Goleta Valley, making it the most densely populated neighborhood in Santa Barbara.  The earliest historical reference to the Westside came in 1793 when Captain George Vancouver, a British explorer-scientist,... Read more

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