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This is a list of museums in Orange County, California, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
In 1853 and 1854 his first job was to survey a large part of Los Angeles County with Major Henry Hancock. In 1868, he was president of the company that built the dam at Echo Park to provide drinking water to the Los Angeles hill houses. He moved to Orange County and designed Anaheim as head of the Los Angeles Vineyard Company.
When Anaheim was a rural community surrounded by orange groves, the geographic center of town was at the intersection of Center Street and Los Angeles Street (now Center Street and Anaheim Blvd.) and the central business district was built around the center of town anchored by the likes of the SQR Department Store, Chung King Restaurant, and Pickwick Hotel.
1902 – Anaheim Public Library established. [7] 1911 – Anaheim Orange Growers Association incorporated. [8] 1919 Anaheim Citrus Packing House built. [9] Public park established (approximate date). [10] 1923 – Anaheim Morning Bulletin begins publication. [4] 1938 – Los Angeles flood of 1938. [1] 1941 – Prado Dam built in vicinity of ...
In 2005, Ann and Steve Curlee packed their belongings tightly in their mobile home to move to a new park 15 miles away. The grounds they had lived on since the late 1980s in Morrisville were being ...
Owned by the city, the park spans an area of 58-acres (23 hectares), comprising three adjoining canyons of the Santa Ana foothills. It has an elevation range from 525 to 825 feet (160 to 251 m)., [ 1 ] and contains three major vegetation zones: coastal sage scrub , oak woodland and riparian .
West Anaheim was named in 1877 when the Southern Pacific railroad established a station west of Anaheim because the city refused to pay subsidies. [1] A post office was established at West Anaheim from 1900 to 1907 by the name of Loara. [2] Prior to 1960, newly annexed West Anaheim mostly consisted of orange groves before Disneyland opened in 1955.
Notable Chumash villages included Satwiwa ("The Bluffs") in Newbury Park, Sap'wi ("House of Deer") in Thousand Oaks, and Hipuk in Westlake Village. Sap'wi (Šihaw Ven-632i) is located near Chumash Indian Museum in Oakbrook Regional Park. This park is also home to 4-6,000 year old pictographs, which can be observed on docent-led tours.