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From the Reference Desk: Lompoc – Ye Olde Party Towne

I found the reference book cited below when looking in YRL’s reference collection for information about Santa Barbara sheriffs in the 1870s and 1880s. This is a bit of information about historical Lompoc that I just found amusing. Apparently Lompoc used to be a quite a raucous town in the late 19th century: “Lompoc was founded as a temperance colony,…

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