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St. Michael’s By-the-Sea Carlsbad’s First Church and a Beacon of Faith Since 1894

Long before Carlsbad became a bustling beach town filled with restaurants, boutiques, and visitors, it was a small coastal community where neighbors depended on one another. As the town began to grow in the late 1800s, its residents wanted more than homes and businesses—they wanted a place to gather, worship, celebrate weddings, comfort grieving families,…