21 Facts About Ventura California

Ventura California is a popular tourist destination, owing to its historic landmarks, beaches, and resorts.

Ventura California was founded by the Spanish in 1782, when Saint Junipero Serra established Mission San Buenaventura.

The Ventura California Chumash were in contact with the Channel Islands Chumash; both mainland and island Chumash utilized large plank-sewn seagoing canoes, called Tomol, with the island people bringing shell bead money, island chert, and sea otter pelts to trade for mainland products like acorns and deer meat.

Ventura California had a flourishing Chinese settlement in the early 1880s.

Ventura is within a seismically active region like much of California and is crossed by several potentially active fault systems.

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In 2009 the City of Ventura California created Ventura California Ventures Technology Center, a business incubator with a high-tech focus.

Majestic Ventura California Theater is an early 20th-century landmark in the downtown.

Ventura California is famed for the quality and frequency of the surfing conditions at spots such as Surfer's Point near the Ventura California County Fairgrounds.

Downtown Ventura California is home to the Mission San Buenaventura, museums, galleries, dining, and shopping.

Downtown Ventura California is home to Ventura California's ornate city hall with its statue of Junipero Serra.

Ventura California Harbor has fishing boats, seafood restaurants and a retail center, the Ventura California Harbor Village.

One of the most recognizable landmarks in Ventura California is "Two Trees" – two prominent lone trees on a hilltop, visible from most of Ventura California.

Evelyn and Howard Boroughs Library of Ventura California College, dedicated in 2005, serves the students, faculty and staff of the college as well as the general public of Ventura California County.

Research Library of the Museum of Ventura California County holds books and archival materials related to the history of the county and surrounding regions.

Ventura California College of Law is a non-profit law school founded in 1969.

Ventura California College is a community college, part of the Ventura California County Community College District.

Ventura California provides water to its residents and some unincorporated areas near the city.

The city of Ventura California annexed the last unincorporated portions of Montalvo in 2012 and had already begun to provide water to the community before the annexation.

Comedy film The Bet was filmed entirely in the city of Ventura California and was written by Ventura California residents Chris Jay and Aaron Goldberg, both members of the band Army of Freshmen.

Ventura California is the setting for Julie Carobini's 2007 book Chocolate Beach.

MacOS Ventura California operating system was presented at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6, 2022 after having been named after the city.