Ellwood Oil Field
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Ellwood Oil Field and South Ellwood Offshore Oil Field are a pair of adjacent, partially active oil fields adjoining the city of Goleta, California, about twelve miles west of Santa Barbara, largely i
The Ellwood Oil Field and South Ellwood Offshore Oil Field. Other oil fields are shown in gray.
Aerial: Ellwood Oil Field from West
Sandpiper Golf Course with derricks in background, 1975. Photo by Charles O'Rear.
Barnsdall-Rio Grande gas station, built in 1929 next to the Ellwood Oil Field
Bombardment of Ellwood
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The Bombardment of Ellwood during World War II was a naval attack by a Japanese submarine against United States coastal targets near Santa Barbara, California in February 1942. Though the damage was m
Ellwood Oil Field
…Barbara Channel. A richly productive field in the 1930s, the Ellwood Oil Field was important to the economic development of the Santa Barbara area. A Japanese submarine shelled the area during World War II. It was the first direct naval bombardment of the continental U.S. since the Civil War, causing an invasion scare on the…
The Ellwood Oil Field and the location of the Japanese attack.