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Summerland, CA - History
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Welcome to the Summerland Home page. The Summerland Home page provides as much information as possible on Summerland. Knowing Summerland’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Summerland’s Home page, you will also find Summerland’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Summerland has a population of 745. 51% of Summerland’s inhabitants are Male, and 49 are female. 60.3% of Summerland is married and 68.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $2,000,001, and the average rent is $2,712. Household median income in Summerland is $108,633, and the individual median income is $49,554. Summerland’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%).
Tar from natural oil seeps in the Summerland area was used for sealing their ocean-going tomols by the Chumash people and for the Mission Santa Barbara as waterproofing for the roof. In 1883, spiritualist and real estate speculator H.L. Williams founded the town of Summerland. In 1888 he divided his land tract, on a moderately sloping hill facing the ocean, into numerous parcels.
He promoted the tiny lots – 25 x 60 – to fellow Spiritualists, who bought them in quantity and moved to the area. The spiritual center of the town was a Spiritualist Church, with séance room, demolished when Highway 101 was put through in the 1950s. In the 1890s, oil development began in the coastal area of Summerland, at the Summerland Oil Field.
Numerous wooden oil derricks were built on the beach, and on piers stretching into the ocean. The world's first offshore oil well, drilled into the sea floor, was at this location. Production at this beach area peaked before 1910, although most of the rigs remained into the 1920s. Peak production from the onshore portion of the Summerland Field did not occur until 1930; the last oil was pumped from the nearshore region in 1940.In 1957, Standard Oil Co.
of California (now Chevron) found the large Summerland Offshore Oil Field, several miles offshore, which was shut down in the 1990s. In January 1969, a blowout at the Dos Cuadras Field, about five miles offshore, caused the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, a formative event for the modern environmental movement.In August 2015, Summerland's beach was closed for several days by County of Santa Barbara health officials due to large amounts of oil washed onshore.
Local residents suspect the petroleum source is a leaking capped oil well ("the Becker wellhead") in the tidal area below Lookout Park.
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