VENTURA : Lincoln Is Subject of Museum’s Tour
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed a declaration returning Mission San Buenaventura to the Catholic Church. The mission--including surrounding buildings, equipment and six acres of land--had been bought in the 1840s for $16,000 by a doctor, who operated it as a hotel.
More anecdotes about Lincoln and Ventura can be learned on a one-hour outing Saturday at the Albinger Archaeological Museum in Ventura, where the city’s first polling place once stood.
“Lincoln may have returned the mission to gain support for the Union cause. He was a consummate politician,” said Richard Senate, the city’s historic sites manager. He explained that in the 1840s, Mexican Gov. Pio Pico had sold the Ventura mission, and others throughout the state, to individuals.
Assistant museum manager Shirley Sager will begin the free tour at 1 p.m. at the museum, 113 E. Main St., Ventura.
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