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Solvang (/ ˈ s ɒ l v æ ŋ /; [6] Danish for "sunny field") is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Located in the Santa Ynez Valley, the population was 6,126 at the 2020 census, up from 5,245 at the 2010 census. Solvang was founded in 1911 [6] and incorporated as a city on May 1, 1985.
Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynez) was a Spanish mission in present-day Solvang, California, United States, and named after St. Agnes of Rome.Founded on September 17, 1804, by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding ...
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Solvang 34°35′40″N 120°08′11″W / 34.59444°N 120.13639°W / 34.59444; -120.13639 ( Mission Santa Serves as a parish church and museum.
Ballard was founded in 1880 at the location of a Wells Fargo stage line station, being named by George Lewis after William Ballard, the former proprietor, who ran the station from 1862 to 1870. [10] In 1882 it was believed that Ballard would grow into the central metropolis of Santa Barbara County. The first school, Ballard's Little Red School ...
On February 23, 1942, not long after the outbreak of war in the Pacific, a Japanese submarine emerged from the ocean and lobbed about 25 shells at the Ellwood Oil Field facilities in its first attack on a land target within the continental United States during the entire war, and the first naval attack on U.S. soil by an enemy power on such ...
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Elverhøj Museum of History and Art is a museum in Solvang, California, whose mission is "to collect, preserve and exhibit the history and Danish culture of Solvang and to promote the arts." [1] It is one of the few examples of museums outside of Denmark that focus on Danish/Danish-American culture. [2] It is located a few blocks from the town ...