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Mission and Mission Park
2201 Laguna Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Exit Highway 101at Mission Street. Follow Mission Street to Laguna Street and turn left onto Laguna Street. Proceed to mission.
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden: (where the mission dam is located)
1212 Mission Canyon Road
Santa Barbara, CA
Mission Dam
To get to Santa Barbara Botanic Garden to see the dam, exit the mission parking lot and turn left onto Los Olivos and follow it counter-clockwise around the front of the mission. Follow Los Olivos through it curves and a name change to Mission Canyon Road and follow to Foothill Road. Turn right and then after a few blocks, turn left back onto Mission Canyon Road. Follow to the Gardens. Be carefull and watch the signs, it gets confusing. We got lost returning once.
Across the street from Mission Santa Barbara to the north, extends a low stone wall, easily visible. Beyond this wall lies Mission Park. This is not a park of green grass and picnic tables, it is native grasses, oak trees, and meandering paths connecting the dozen or so ruins of mission support buildings and the aqueduct. I had been to the mission three or four times before discovering this wonder. All the Mission Park photos except the wall and Tannery were taken after my professional camera died and I used a $60.00 point and shoot camera. 9-14-03.
 I had been to Santa Barbara Mission many time and could see this wall to the north. What I never realized was that the Mission Park spread just beyond this wall, which I later learned is actusllypart of the aqueduct. 9-14-03. |
 Aqueduct. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
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The City of Santa Babara Mission Historical Park Santa Barbara Mission was fonded December 4, 1786. Portions of five units of its extensive water works built by Indian labor, are preserved in this park - A Filter House, Spanish Grist Mill, sections of aqueducts and two reservoirs. The larger reservoir, built in 1806, is used today as aprt of the city water system. Ruins of the Pottery Kiln and Tanning vats are here. Also, the fountain and Lavadero are near by in front of the old mission. A dam, built in 1807. Is located in the Santa Barbra Botanic Garden, one and one-half miles up Mission Canyon. Registered Historical Landmark No. 309 Plaque placed by California State Park Commission April 21, 1957 |
 Tannery. 9-14-03. |
 Tannery. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Tannery. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Tannery. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Jail House. 9-14-03. |
 Jail House. 9-14-03. |
 Jail. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Jail. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Jail with Pottery Shed beyond. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Jail. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Jail. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Jail. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Pottery shed. 9-14-03. |
 Pottery Shed. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Pottery Shed. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Pottery Shed. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Pottery Shed, back side. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Pottery Shed, back side. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Lower Reservoir. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Plaque. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Grist Mill. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Grits Mill. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Upper Reservoir. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Upper Reservoir. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Upper Reservoir with Mission beyond. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Upper Reservoir with Mission beyond. Photo date: 6-26-04. |
 Filter. 9-14-03. |
 Filter. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Filter. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Filter. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Filter. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Filter. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Filter and the aqueduct. 9-14-03. |
 Aqueduct. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Aqueduct. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
About two miles north of Mission Santa Barbara (directions above), within the grounds of the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens, are the remains of the Mission Dam, filter, and aqueduct.
 Front of Dam. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Front of Dam. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Dam. Photo date: 9-14-03. |
 Back side of Dam. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Front of dam. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Front of dam and sluice. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Sluice, looking down from the dam. Photo date: 5-15-04. |
 Sluice and dam beyond. Photo date: 5-15-04 |
 Sluce. 9-14-03. |
 Settling Box. 5-15-04. |
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