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4 unusual facts about San Luis Obispo County


Lynwood Drake

Finally he made his way to the home of 60-year-old Joanne Morrow – also a former landlord of his – in San Miguel, and, beating her with a blackjack and threatening to kill her, he took her hostage.

He then drove to another house in San Miguel, where he took the owner hostage, before committing suicide the next morning.

Paso Robles High School

The school receives its students from George H. Flamson Middle School and Daniel E. Lewis Middle School, both located in Paso Robles, as well as from the Lillian Larsen School, a public K-8 school in San Miguel, California and Pleasant Valley Elementary School, a public K-8 school located in an outlying area of northeastern San Luis Obispo County.

San Luis Obispo County, California

On December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashed in San Luis Obispo County after a passenger shot 5 people on board, including the pilots, then intentionally crashed the plane.


Ceanothus maritimus

It is endemic to San Luis Obispo County, California, where it is known from only a few occurrences in the vicinity of Hearst Ranch.

Chorro, California

Chorro and El Chorro Regional Park is also known for its contributions to the county of San Louis Obispo for Earth Day, where many residents stay and spend the night in the park and throughout the town.

Clarkia speciosa

It is known from about 20 occurrences on the coastline of San Luis Obispo County near Pismo Beach.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa

Named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse, the mission is the namesake of the city of San Luis Obispo and San Luis Obispo County.

San Simeon, California

In 1953, the Hearst Corporation donated the William Randolph Hearst Memorial Beach, including the old Hearst Pier, to San Luis Obispo County.

Western gray squirrel

There are three geographical subspecies: Sciurus griseus griseus (central Washington to the western Sierra Nevada in central California); S. g. nigripes (from south of San Francisco Bay to San Luis Obispo County, California; and S. g. anthonyi, which ranges from San Luis Obispo to northern Baja California).

William P. Clark, Jr.

Clark was severely injured when he crashed his airplane on his ranch in Shandon, San Luis Obispo County, California, in 1988.


see also

Buchon

Mount Buchon a mountain range in San Luis Obispo County, California

California State Route 166

This stretch follows the Cuyama River through a canyon separating the Sierra Madre Mountains from mountains in San Luis Obispo County, and then opens out into the Cuyama Valley, passing cattle ranches, going through the Russell Ranch Oil Field, and passing Aliso Canyon Road, the turnoff to the South Cuyama Oil Field.

Chorro

Chorro, an unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA

The Tides of Manaunaun

The production was staged in the summer of 1917 at a convention of the theosophical community of Halcyon in coastal San Luis Obispo County, California; Varian was a leader of the group, to which he had introduced Cowell.