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THE HISTORY OF SANTA ANNA, CALIFORNIA

  • expeditio of MEXICO CITY

    expeditio of MEXICO CITY
    Gaspar de Portolá out of Mexico city , them capitol of new Spain.
  • Mission San Juan Capistrano

    Mission San Juan Capistrano
    This Santa Ana Vally comprised most of what is now called Orange Country .
  • MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE

    MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE
    THE day of Idepenence of the Mexico for the Spain .
  • alta california

    alta california
    Alta California became part of the United State and American setters arrived in this area.
  • Kentuckian

    Kentuckian
    Wiliam h. Spurgeon on land obtained from the decendents of Jose Antonio Yorba , Santa Anna was incorpodate as a city in 1886 with population of 2000.
  • ORANGE COUNTY

    ORANGE COUNTY
    Became the seat of the newly formed Orange County . The name is for the citrus fruit (once its most famous product).
  • LOS ANGELES

    LOS ANGELES
    Was extended to Santa Anna, running along Fourth Street downtown.
  • Aviation Company

    Aviation Company
    Santa Anna was the original Glenn L. Martin aviation company , fouded in 1912 beform merging whith the Wright Company in 1916 .
  • SANTA ANNA´S POPULATION

    SANTA ANNA´S POPULATION
    Due to declining ridership , the route was abandoned by the 1950 and the tracks were removed along with much of the rest of the pacific electric system.
  • Chacter city

    Chacter city
    The citizens of Santa Anna amended the CHACTER November 1988.
  • Santa Anna Freway

    Santa Anna Freway
    Increasing the ease of travel by automobile
  • SINCE THE 1980

    SINCE THE 1980
    Santa Anna has been charaterized by an effort to revitalize the downtown area.
  • MainPlace mall

    MainPlace mall
    Was opened north of dowtown and became a major retail center for the area.
  • Yost theater

    Yost theater
    The pocess has continued into 2009 with the reopening of the historic Yost theater.