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Santa Ana 1888

 
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 Brief History:

 Orange County is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California. As of the 2010 census, the population
 was 3,010,232, making it the third-most populous county in California, the sixth most populous in the U.S., and more
 populous than 21 U.S. states. Although mostly suburban, it is the second most densely populated county in the state, behind
 San Francisco County. The county's three most populous cities are Anaheim, Santa Ana, and Irvine, each of which has a
 population exceeding 300,000. Santa Ana is also the county seat. Six cities in Orange County are on the Pacific coast,
 including Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, and San Clemente.

 Members of the Tongva, Juaneño, and Luiseño Native American groups long inhabited the area. 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 became the area's first permanent European settlement. Among those who
 came with Portolá were José Manuel Nieto and José Antonio Yorba. Both these men were given land grants—Rancho Los
 Nietos and Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, respectively. The Nieto heirs were granted land in 1834. The Nieto ranches 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 Orange County were granted by the Mexican government during the Mexican period in Alta
 California.






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                    State Coordinator:  Bob Jenkins
     Assistant State Coordinator:
 Karen De Groote


 The CAGenWeb Project sincerely thanks the dedicated volunteers who devoted time and effort toward making
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Eric Segal (1996-1999)
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 Vikki Gray (1999)
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 Ray Ensing (2007-2008)
 Sheila Larson (2008-2009)
 Joe Markovich (2010-2011)
 Denise Wells (2012-2021)







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