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Valley along the Santa Clara River in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California
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The Santa Clara Valley is a rural, mainly agricultural, valley in Ventura County. Santa Clara Valley was known as "the Valley of Heart's Delight" for its high concentration of orchards, flowering trees and plants.
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A national historic landmark that is a working ranch, and a prime example of an early California rancho in its original rural setting. Many of the buildings and grounds are open to the public as a museum of this period in California history.
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Fillmore is a small town in Ventura County in California. It is primarily an agricultural area, although it does have a historic downtown that dates back to the late 1800s when the Southern Pacific railroad built a line through the town.
Santa Paula is a small town in Ventura County in California. The town was an early center of California's petroleum industry and today advertises itself as the "Citrus Capital of the World".
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