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German settlers Ferdinand and Louise Backs moved to Anaheim in the 1870s, some of the earliest residents of the region. In 1902, the Backs began construction on a new home where their previous house stood. Architect Edward Niehaus designed it in the Colonial Revival style at 3,713 square feet (344.9 m 2). [1]
Founder of Anaheim: George Hansen. George Hansen, known as the "Father of Anaheim", was a surveyor and a civil engineer.Hansen was born in Fiume, Austria in 1824. He departed Austria in 1850 and came to California by sailing to Peru around Cape Horn.
Relatively few place names in the United States have names of German origin, unlike Spanish or French names. Many of the German town names are in the Midwest, due to high German settlement in the 1800s. Many of the names in New York and Pennsylvania originated with the German Palatines (called Pennsylvania Dutch), who immigrated in the 18th ...
Right at the time David found his brothers, he heard Goliath's challenge and became angry at the insults to his God, a reaction that set him apart from all other Israelites in that place. [45] David regarded Goliath's defying "the armies of Israel" (17:10) as nothing less than defying "the armies of the living God" (17:26). [45]
The Goliath tracked mine (German: Leichter Ladungsträger Goliath, "Goliath Light Charge Carrier") was a series of two unmanned ground vehicles used by the German Army as disposable demolition vehicles during World War II. These were the electrically powered Sd.Kfz. 302 and the petrol-engine powered Sd.Kfz. 303a and 303b. They were known as ...
US President Dwight Eisenhower (1890 - 1965) (left) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1874 - 1971) at Camp David, Maryland, September 25, 1959.
1941 – Prado Dam built in vicinity of Anaheim. [1] 1944 – Yorba Orange Growers Association established. [8] 1955 – Disneyland [1] and Anaheim Drive-In cinema [11] in business. 1966 – Anaheim Stadium opens. 1967 – Anaheim Convention Center and the public library's Anaheim History Room open. [7] 1968 – Fox Cinemaland theatre in ...
Anaheim Cemetery is a public cemetery established by German immigrants in c. 1866 in Anaheim, Orange County, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Since 2002, it has had a historical marker issued by the county.