Stretching out along the beautiful Pacific shoreline, Oxnard is the largest city in Ventura County.
These days, the annual strawberry festival attracts thous.
Oxnard and his investors saw the potential to build the largest sugar factory in the world.
The first crops were planted by German and Irish immigrants in 1867, and by 1898, Henry T.
The flat plain area lay fallow for nearly a century after the original population, the Chumash Indians, concentrated around the mission of San Buenaventura.
Stretching out along the beautiful Pacific shoreline, Oxnard is the largest city in Ventura County