December 1883: Santa Maria s first brick building was put up by T.A. Jones to replace a two-story wooden structure that was destroyed in a fire Sept. 3 of that same
Sept. 21, 1905: The first meeting of the new City of Santa Maria s Board of Trustees (now the City Council) was held in the director s room of the First National
Serving as mayor of Santa Maria from 1956 to 1960, Curtis Tunnell had worked unceasingly toward improving the downtown area, most specifically, Whiskey Row.
See a list of highlights in the history of the Santa Maria Valley in this column from Shirley Contreras. Aug. 21, 1874: The Guadalupe Masonic Lodge voted to purchase land