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The history of Santa Monica, California, covers the significant events and movements in Santa Monica's past.
Santa Monica History. FOUNDED: Senator John P. Jones and Colonel Baker, together founded the town of Santa Monica on July 10, 1875. Throughout its history, Santa Monica has been described by many endearing phrases, among them “City by the Sea,” “Pearl of the Pacific,” “City of Inspiration” and “Jewel of the Sunset Bay.”.
May 12, 2024 · Santa Monica was laid out in 1875 by Senator John P. Jones and named for Las Lágrimas de Santa Monica (Spanish: “The Tears of St. Monica”), a local spring. The city was promoted as an ocean-side resort and port-terminus of the Los Angeles-to-Independence Railroad.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Santa Monica traces its history to Rancho San Vicente y Santa Mónica, granted in 1839 to the Sepúlveda family of California. The rancho was later sold to John P. Jones and Robert Baker, who in 1875, along with his Californio heiress wife Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founded Santa Monica, which incorporated as a city in 1886.
History of Santa Monica The Tongva or Gabrielino, indigenous to Southern California for thousands of years, inhabited the Los Angeles Basin, north Orange County, the Southern Channel Island and San Clemente Islands.
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Jun 21, 2017 · 1542. Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo drops anchor in Santa Monica Bay. 1769. Father Juan Crespi, a Franciscan in Gaspar de Portola’s expedition party, names the area after Saint Monica. 1770. Saint Monica’s fertile open country remains under Spanish rule. Santa Monica in the 1800s. 1828.
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