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VENTURA, CALIFORNIA
In ancient times there were numerous Indian villages along the
shore of what is now Ventura County. Cabrillo, the discoverer
of California, landed on the coast in 1542. He gave the place
the name El Pueblo de las Canoas ("the Town of the Canoes"),
because he was impressed by the large, finely built boats which
the tribes built. The boats could carry from fifteen to twenty
persons and were calked with asphaltum from nearby pits. Today
Ventura is known as an oil and farming city.... M.P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
B-366
O & Published by Royal Pictures, Colton, California
$11117
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