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Visit Catalina Island, California - Complete Avalon and Two Harbors packages, Pavilion Lodge, Atwater Hotels, Discovery Tours, resturants, golf, weddings and meetings venues. Offering the best of Catalina Island since 1894!A Santa Catalina Island Company Website
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S ANTA C ATALINA I SLAND C OMPANY - 110 Y EARS O F Q UALITY S ERVICE
In October, 1894, the Banning Brothers - William, Hancock and Joseph - incorporated the Santa Catalina Island Company, placed title to the Catalina Island land holdings they had acquired two years earlier into their newly-formed company, and then started building for the future. The Bannings planned to develop the island as a resort, and much of the initial development of Avalon took place during their ownership.
When William Wrigley Jr. acquired a majority interest in the Santa Catalina Island Company from the Bannings in 1919, the destiny of the Island began to change forever. This now-historic event cast the die for permanently preserving substantially all of Santa Catalina Island in its natural state. During the next 56 years, various conservation practices were initiated by the Wrigley-led Santa Catalina Island Company, including much-needed animal controls, protection of watersheds and reseeding of overgrazed areas.
A positive sense of future direction and prudent land stewardship have been the hallmark of the Santa Catalina Island Company since then, and remain so to this day. Thus, as we approach our second century, the Santa Catalina Island Company is headed into its 110th Year of Quality Service, and we are entering a new era of exciting challenges and opportunities.
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