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Even though the population of the Tapo Canyon area decreased during the end of the
Mission times, the early 20th century brought new opportunities to the area, and Tapo Canyon was once again an organized settlement in 1911. The population especially grew when Scrab Oil Company began oil-production in
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September 3, 1795: "After examining everything, we found the water to be not abundant, the valley very narrow and dismal, the soil salinous, and consequently unserviceable." During the 1850s, wine-maker Don José De La Guerra started wine-grape harvesting and
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Chumash-Indians from Ta’apu survived the mission period: Tiburcio Cayo (1793-1844), Maria del Pilar Siguisalmeulgel (1807-1860), and Leopoldo Cuticucagele (1799-1865). There have been numerous Chumash artifact findings in Tapo Canyon, including a Chumash Effigy Tablet, discovered by
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Regional Park in 1969. The Tapo Canyon Fire in 1985 burned 16,000 acres of land surrounding Tapo Canyon. Because of several other wildfires in the area, the Tapo Canyon Regional Park was closed from 2003 to 2008.
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Tapo Canyon in 1910. The first well opened with a production of as much as 300 barrels of oil per day, and a pipeline was shortly built down to the
Southern Pacific depot where the storage tanks were situated. In 1916,
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Philip W. Gillibrand in 1900. The tablet, measuring ten inches long and 6.25 inches wide, is believed by historians to be a
Chumash calendar. Historians believe the Roman Catholic Father Vincent de Santa Maria of the
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is an open-space park and camping ground administered by the
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