Santa Barbara's Royal Presidio
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Santa Barbara's Royal Presidio

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Spain's Last Adobe Fortress

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eBook - ePub

Santa Barbara's Royal Presidio

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Spain's Last Adobe Fortress

About this book

Unique in California history—and beloved by visitors and residents alike—the city of Santa Barbara boasts three great historical properties: the Mission, the Courthouse, and the Presidio. Least known is the Presidio. This book fills this vacuum, beginning with the story of its adobe construction between 1784 and 1790. This itself was preceded by the construction of three other Spanish forts: Monterey (1770), San Diego (1773), and San Francisco (1776). All four Presidios helped secure the Spanish settlement of Alta or Upper California, as the mixed-racial soldiers and their families became the first Spanish settlers of the region. The Santa Barbara Presidio was the last Spanish fort founded and built not only in California, but in all of Spanish North America, an area that, in its day, covered much of the southern portion of the modern United States from Florida to California. This book celebrates the Santa Barbara Presidio's place in not only American history but also that of Spain, and honors the community that came together to ensure its preservation and faithful reconstruction.

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Information

Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781493070756
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. FOREWORD BY MILFORD WAYNE DONALDSON
  2. PROLOGUE: INTO THE MAELSTROM
  3. CHAPTER ONE: The Presidio: The Birthplace of Santa Barbara
  4. CHAPTER TWO: Decline and Fall of the Presidio
  5. CHAPTER THREE: The Early Years of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
  6. CHAPTER FOUR: The Presidio Project: Peaks and Valleys of the 1980s
  7. CHAPTER FIVE: Winning the Day
  8. CHAPTER SIX: Back to Adobe Mudslinging
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN: Making History Fun: Living History and Rewards of Research
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT: Creative Mudslinging in Full Swing
  11. CHAPTER NINE: Some Amazing Presidio Real-Estate Stories
  12. CHAPTER TEN: Pomp and Circumstance: Royalty Comes to the Presidio
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN: My First Twenty Years
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE: “We Are the Mud People”
  15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Some Outside Activities: Did These Benefit the Presidio Project?
  16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Surviving the Great Recession
  17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Santa Inés Mission Mills Takes Center Stage
  18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: When Does an Interest Become a Distraction?
  19. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Casa de la Guerra: Profit Versus Interpretation
  20. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: More Museum Space: More Exhibitions
  21. CHAPTER NINETEEN: Building a New Research Center
  22. CHAPTER TWENTY: Still Much to Celebrate
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Final Projects and Praises
  24. CHAPTER WENTY-TWO: Why the Presidio Project Succeeded
  25. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  26. APPENDIX
  27. BIBLIOGRAPHY