Santa Monica
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- Names
Santa Monica
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Santa Monica Bay; laid out in 1875 by Senator John P Jones; named after local spring Las Lágrimas ("the tears") de Santa Monica; promoted as oceanside resort & residential community; Santa Monica City College founded 1929.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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