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Thousand Oaks is an affluent city in south east Ventura County California and the north west part of greater Los Angeles. It is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. Thousand Oaks is situated approximately 30 miles from Downtown LA. Thousand Oaks is also about 15 miles from the Woodland Hills, which serves to mark the Los Angeles city limit. Thousand Oaks was named after the thousands of oak trees that once covered the hills.
Thousand Oaks adds to one of the most populated parts of the Conejo Valley. The Conejo Valley contains, as previously mentioned, Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, Westlake Village, and Agoura Hills. Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park were once 2 large parts of the master planned city created in the mid-1950s by a large real estate developer. Thousand Oaks originally included about one-thousand custom home sites, about two thousand single family residences, a large local shopping mall, and complete by a two hundred acre business and industrial park and several local strip malls. According to the census the median sale price of homes in Thousand Oaks is approximately $700,000. In 2006 Thousand Oaks was named by Money Magazine as one of America’s “Best Places to Live.”
Thousand Oaks’ documented history goes back to 1542 when Spaniard explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo touched down at Point Mugu and claimed the land for the Spain Crown. Thousand Oaks later became part of the large approximately 50 thousand acres of “Rancho El Conejo” land grant by the Spanish government.
In the late nineteenth century Thousand Oaks was situated on the stagecoach route that operated between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara California. The Thousand Oaks Stagecoach Inn was constructed in 1876 and is now a Historical Landmark and museum helping to preserve the heritage of Thousand Oaks.
A group of real estate developers operating in Southern California, bought approximately ten thousand acres in the beginning of the twentieth century. The group of developers soon constructed plans for a ‘complete community’ and the vastness of 1000 helped describe a community speckled with the now famous oak trees.
In the 1940’s and 50’s Thousand Oaks was the home of a wild animal park named where shows entertained thousands of people living in the surrounding area. Some famous Golden Era Movies like The Adventures of Robin Hood and Tarzan. The park later shut its doors in the late 1960’s. Currently the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center currently a more developed area occupies the once busy nature preserve.
The City of Thousand Oaks was incorporated on October 1964 and was the first city to incorporate in the Conejo Valley. It was incorporated as a master planed city and because of this, the Thousand Oaks has fewer problems that other cities of the same size encounter. Pollution and traffic congestion being greatly mitigated when compared to other similar sized cities. Because of Thousand Oaks’ location and favorable environment, real estate prices have increased greater than two-hundred percent in the last decade.
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