Ventura, California

Ventura (officially the City of San Buenaventura; commonly called San Buenaventura before 1891),^[1] or Shisholop in Chumash^[2] is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States. It was incorporated in 1866. The population was 110,763 at the 2020 census.^[3]

Ventura, California Media

Ventura was founded by the Spanish in 1782, when Saint Junípero Serra established Mission San Buenaventura.
Mission San Buenaventura in 1839
Don Raymundo Olivas, a retired Californio soldier, built the Olivas Adobe in 1841 on his Rancho San Miguel.
Village of San Buenaventura in 1865
Fourth of July celebration in 1874. The Parade Marshal is Thomas R. Bard.
San Buenaventura, California (1898)
Casa de Anza, built in 1929 to house workers from the Ventura Oil Field
View of Ventura Harbor
Ventura California Aerial Photo D Ramey Logan
Founded in 1782, the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura is a parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. In 2020, Pope Francis elevated it to the category of basilica.

↑ Erwin G. Gudde, California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names, 4th ed., rev. and enlarged by William Bright (University of California Press, 1998), p. 410.
↑ McCall, Lynne; Perry, Rosalind (2002). California’s Chumash Indians : a project of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Education Center (Revised ed.). San Luis Obispo, Calif: EZ Nature Books. p. 36. ISBN 0936784156.
↑ "QuickFacts: San Buenaventura (Ventura) city, California". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 28, 2023.

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