Eastside

History

In the days when Santa Barbara was just beginning to expand across the plain bracketed by the Mesa and the Riviera, there was no "Eastside" or "Westside." This division was caused in 1851 when State Street was created, bisecting a Mexican pueblo then in the process of changing into an American village. Because of this arbitrary boundary, Santa Barbara's "birthplace," the Royal Presidio of 1782, wound up on the Eastside.
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