The Channel Islands Maritime Museum (CIMM) is happy to announce that acclaimed local author and Oxnard historian Jeffrey Maulhardt will be its featured speaker for March.
Jeffrey’s presentation on “Preserving History Through Books and a Museum” will explore the history of Oxnard and his role of founder in the creation of the Oxnard Historic Farm Park Foundation. Jeffrey will also be discussing his most recent book “Oxnard (Past and Present).”
As early as 1910, Oxnard was known as the Biggest Little City on the Coast, when the population was a mere 2,200. A hundred years later, the population topped 200,000, and Oxnard became the most populous city in Ventura County. Built around the largest sugar processing plant in the world in 1898, the city now hosts an 800,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center on the land that once grew sugar beets.
