Native plant the first avocado trees. You can learn more about Santa Barbara all weekend here on American History tv. [church bell tolling] tina foss Santa Barbara mission is the 10th of a chain of 21 missions built by the fransiscans in cooperation with the spanish, who were conquering california, essentially, trying to keep the russians out. Ofy, along the coast california, established four forts, and between them spanish werere schools, which missions. The idea was to get coastal indians to be pro spanish and keep out the russians and possibly the english and whoever else might be encroaching on the Northern Edge of mexico. It is the only mission in california that has continuously operated as a church from its founding to present day. In the Santa Barbara area, the Linguistic Group of the chumash justns came from malibu, north of los angeles, to San Luis Obispo to south of monterey county. In of the largest groups california if they inhabited the area from malibu to San Luis Obispo