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FAST FACTS: Santa Barbara Harbor – The Crescent Bay

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Richard Henry Dana, Dana Point’s namesake, was a Boston native who navigated from New England to Santa Barbara in the 1820s. The merchant sailor and maritime attorney described the region as a bay surrounded by crescent-shaped land. Dana’s first impressions of Santa Barbara were captured in his memoirs, “Two Years Before...
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