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Orange County Real Estate Links
Orange County Real Estate Links
Orange County Real Estate Links
Orange County Real Estate Links
Members of the Tongva and Juaneño/Luiseño Native American groups long inhabited the Orange County Real Estate links. After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Junipero Serra named the area Valle de Santa Ana (Valley of Saint Anne). On November 1, 1776, Mission San Juan Capistrano near the Orange County Real Estate links became the area's first permanent European settlement. Among those who came to the Orange County Real Estate links with Portolá were José Manuel Nieto and José Antonio Yorba. Both of these men were given land grants near the Orange County Real Estate links - Rancho Los Nietos and Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, respectively. The Nieto heirs were granted land in the Orange County Real Estate links in 1834. The Nieto ranches near the Orange County Real Estate links were known as Rancho Los Alamitos, Rancho Las Bolsas, and Rancho Los Coyotes. Yorba heirs Bernardo Yorba and Teodosio Yorba were also granted Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana (Santa Ana Canyon Ranch) and Rancho Lomas de Santiago, respectively. Other ranchos in the Orange County Real Estate links were granted by the Mexican government during the Mexican period in Alta California.
A severe drought in the 1860s devastated the prevailing industry near the Orange County Real Estate links, cattle ranching, and much land in the Orange County Real Estate links came into the possession of Richard O'Neill, Sr., James Irvine and other land barons. In 1887, silver was discovered in the Santa Ana Mountains near the Orange County Real Estate links, attracting settlers to the Orange County Real Estate linksvia the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroads.
This growth in the Orange County Real Estate links led the California legislature to divide Los Angeles County and create Orange County as a separate political entity on March 11, 1889. The county is generally said to have been named for the citrus fruit (its most famous product). However, in the new county there was already a town by the name of Orange, named for Orange County, Virginia, which itself took its name from William of Orange. The fact the county took the same name as one of its towns may have been coincidence. However it is also possible that the county was named for this city (and thus indirectly for William of Orange, whose family name was itself derived from the French town of Orange named in ancient times in honor of a celtic water deity).
In the Orange County Real Estate links other citrus crops, avocados, and oil extraction were also important to the early Orange County Real Estate links economy. the Orange County Real Estate links benefited from the July 4, 1904 completion of the Pacific Electric Railway, a trolley connecting Los Angeles with Santa Ana and Newport Beach . The link made the Orange County Real Estate links an accessible weekend retreat for celebrities of early Hollywood. the Orange County Real Estate links was deemed so significant that the city of Pacific City changed its name to Huntington Beach in honor of Henry Huntington, president of the Pacific Electric and nephew of Collis Huntington. Transportation in the Orange County Real Estate links further improved with the completion of the State Route and U.S. Route 101 (now mostly Interstate 5) in the 1920s.
the Orange County Real Estate links was central Orange County Agriculture, such as the boysenberry which was made famous by Buena Park native Walter Knott, began to decline after World War II but the the Orange County Real Estate links prosperity soared. The completion of Interstate 5 in 1954 helped make the Orange County Real Estate links a bedroom community for many who moved to Southern California to work in aerospace and manufacturing. the Orange County Real Estate links received a further boost in 1955 with the opening of Disneyland.
In 1969, Yorba Linda-born Orange County Real Estate links native Richard Nixon became the 37th President of the United States.
In the 1980s, the population in the Orange County Real Estate links topped two million for the first time; the Orange County Real Estate links had become the second-most populous county in California.
In the Orange County Real Estate links an investment fund melt-down in 1994 led to the criminal prosecution of County of Orange treasurer Robert Citron. The Orange County Real Estate links lost at least $1.5 billion through high-risk investments in derivatives. On December 6, 1994, the County of Orange declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy, from which it emerged in June 1995. The Orange County bankruptcy was the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
In recent years, the Orange County Real Estate links has been characterized by conflict between the older more historic northern Orange County Real Estate links and newer southern Orange County Real Estate links cities over development, the building of new toll roads, and a recently defeated proposal to build an international airport at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station that would have reduced operations at the existing John Wayne Airport. |
