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The civic center complex includes the Calabasas City Hall, Calabasas Library, Calabasas Amphitheater, and landscaped−furnished public patios. [1]The Spanish Colonial Revival style complex, which opened in July 2008, is located just west of The Commons at Calabasas shopping center.
Its central library, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, is also the main library of the San Jose State University. Built in 2003, King Library is the first joint use library in the United States shared by a major university as its only library and a large city as its main library. It has more than 1.6 million items.
Payson Library. Pepperdine Libraries is the collective name for all of Pepperdine University's academic libraries. Pepperdine Libraries has a collection of over 1 million physical books and periodicals, 1.5 million full-text articles via 150 electronic databases, [1] rare books, [2] and a digital press. [3]
The name Calabasas is an archaic Californio variant spelling of the Spanish word calabazas, meaning "winter squashes" (the area abounds in wild squashes). [9] The Spanish botanist Jose Longinos Martinez recorded Las Calabazas as a place name in 1792.
Calabazas was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Originally settled by the Spanish in 1756 as Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas with seventy-eight O'odham to the site from their village of Toacuquita [3] nearer the Santa Cruz River to the new site on the bluffs above it to the east. A church report in 1772 described the mission as having a population 64: 21 men, 24 women and 19 children.
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