SBTHP has been awarded the Trustees Emeritus Award for Excellence for the Stewardship of Historic Sites from the National Trust for...

By M. Kay Van Horn The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation began plans in 2009 for an Asian Festival to honor and remember the...

Last week we posted three mystery objects excavated at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, along with polls so you could...

By Katherine Lowe When processing a new collection, one of the fun things is thinking about ways to share the collection.  Thanks to...

Celebrate Archaeology Month and the 50th Anniversary of archaeological excavations at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park...

In honor of Archaeology Month, and the 50th anniversary of archaeological excavations at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic...

2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the first archaeological excavations at the Santa Barbara Presidio.  This Thursday at 7:00pm in the...

By Tacy Kennedy Tacy Kennedy with her mosaic vase, a parting gift from the 2011 Field School students. This is a great question, and...

On Saturday October 1, SBTHP hosted our second annual living history day featuring Santa Barbara’s Asian American traditions at El...

Several years ago SBTHP board member Tim Aguilar showed us a Mission-period bench he had acquired. Tim noted that a few benches of the...

Thai on a Truck. Courtesy of Karen Tripp of the blog http://www.warningsugarygoodness.com This Saturday from 11am -3pm, Thai on a Truck,...

Sushi-making instructor Fukiko Miyazaki. Photo by Amanda Gonzalez. By Amanda Gonzalez On Saturday, September 10 the first of four...

By Torie Quiñonez The Presidio Research Center recently received a donation of the personal papers of Delfina de la Guerra, the last...

On Saturday September 17, SBTHP hosted about twenty volunteers who signed up to work at nonprofits all over Southern California through...

Last Friday we gave a tour of the Presidio to five travel agents from the United Kingdom who had never been to California, let alone...

This summer, students in SBTHP’s archaeological field school excavated a Civil War-era button at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State...

This spring we planted white Sonora wheat on the Northeast corner of the Presidio with the help of local third graders participating in...

Mike Imwalle monitoring the well excavation. Photo by Anne Petersen On September 7th and 8th SBTHP archaeologist Mike Imwalle (in the...