Ranchyard and History Education Center
Ranchyard and History Education Center is a museum in Santa Barbara County, Central Coast, California. Ranchyard and History Education Center is situated nearby to the zoo The Animals of the Stow House Ranch Yard, as well as near the tourism office Rancho La Patera Visitor Center.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stow House and Goleta Depot.
Stow House
Museum
The Stow House is a U.S. historical landmark in Goleta, California, United States. Formerly the headquarters of Rancho La Patera, the Stow House, in the Carpenter Gothic style, is now the headquarters of Goleta Historical Society which preserves and interprets the history of the Goleta Valley.
Goleta Depot
Railway station
Goleta Depot is a train station building in Goleta, California constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1901, as part of the completion of the Coast Route linking Los Angeles and San Francisco. Goleta Depot is situated 530 feet south of Ranchyard and History Education Center.
Goleta Railroad Museum
Museum
The South Coast Railroad Museum in Goleta, California is a showplace for the Goleta Depot, a preserved 1901 Southern Pacific Railroad train station. The museum also features the Goleta Short Line, a 7+1⁄2 in gauge miniature railroad, a Southern Pacific bay-window caboose, and a model train layout room, set in a panorama of the cities of Goleta and Santa Barbara, California, in the early 1940’s. Goleta Railroad Museum is situated 560 feet south of Ranchyard and History Education Center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Goleta and Isla Vista.
Goleta
Photo: Damian Gadal, CC BY 2.0.
Goleta is a city a few miles west of Santa Barbara and part of the contiguous urban area of Santa Barbara, within Santa Barbara County, California. This article also covers the unincorporated community of Isla Vista, which is home to the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Isla Vista
Town
Goleta is a city a few miles west of Santa Barbara and part of the contiguous urban area of Santa Barbara, within Santa Barbara County, California. This article also covers the unincorporated community of Isla Vista, which is home to the University of California at Santa Barbara. Isla Vista is situated 2 miles south of Ranchyard and History Education Center.
Hope Ranch
Hamlet
Photo: Antandrus, Public domain.
Hope Ranch is an unincorporated coastal suburb of Santa Barbara, California, located in Santa Barbara County. It is bounded on the east by Santa Barbara, on the north and west by the unincorporated area of the eastern Goleta Valley, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. Hope Ranch is situated 5 miles east of Ranchyard and History Education Center.
Ranchyard and History Education Center
- Type: Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Santa Barbara County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.44384° or 34° 26′ 38″ northLongitude
-119.85213° or 119° 51′ 8″ westOperator
Goleta Valley Historical SocietyOpen location code
8562C4VX+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1353281046OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Animals of the Stow House Ranch Yard and Rancho La Patera Visitor Center.
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