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Portolá Sycamore

Carpinteria, California
· La Carpinteria
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Oral tradition holds that this tree survives from the naming of "La Carpinteria" - the Carpenter Shop - on August 17, 1769, when the Portolá Expedition observed the Chumash building plank canoes at this site.
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