California
A brief guide to some of the locations in California associated
with the Farndale family
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Introduction
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Headlines of the
history of Bradford are in brown.
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Contextual
history is in purple.
The Farndales of California
Many of the American 1 Line Farndales settled
in California, as did the American
3 Line.
Garden Grove, California
Garden Grove is a
city in northern Orange County, California, United States.
Garden Grove was founded by Alonzo Cook in 1874. A school district
and Methodist church were organized that year. It remained a small rural
crossroads and farming community until the arrival of the Pacific Electric
Railroad in 1905. The rail connection helped the town prosper with the influx
of tourists, visitors and eventually settlers, and it was noted for its crops
of oranges, walnuts, chili peppers and later strawberries.
In 1933, much of the town's central business district was
destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake, and one person was killed at the high
school.
The post-World War II boom led to rapid development, and Garden
Grove was incorporated as a city in 1956 with about 44,000 residents.
In 1956, Orange County Plaza (now The Promenade) was opened at
Chapman and Brookhurst, and upon its expansion in 1959, it had 60 stores,
including a J. C. Penney, 2 variety stores and 2 supermarkets, and billed
itself as both the largest and the first regional shopping center
in Orange County.
Santa Ana, California
Santa Ana
(Spanish for 'Saint Anne') is a city in and the county seat of Orange County,
California. Located in the Greater Los Angeles region of Southern California,
the city's population was 310,227 at the 2020 census, making Santa Ana the
second most populous city in Orange County.
By 1905, the Los
Angeles Interurban Railway, a predecessor to the Pacific Electric Railway,
extended from Los Angeles to Santa Ana, running along Fourth Street downtown.
Firestone Boulevard, the first direct automobile route between Los Angeles and
Santa Ana, opened in 1935; it was enlarged into the Santa Ana Freeway in 1953.
The Pacific Electric Santa Ana Line ran from 1905 to 1958.
Santa Ana was the
home of the original Glenn L. Martin aviation company, founded in 1912 before
merging with the Wright Company in 1916. Later, Glenn Luther Martin created a
second company of the same name in Cleveland, Ohio which eventually merged with
the Lockheed Corporation to form the largest defence contractor in the world,
Lockheed Martin.
Although there
was a significant wave of Mexican migration to the city following the 1910
Mexican Revolution, the city remained majority white in 1939.
During World War
II, the Santa Ana Army Air Base was built as a training centre for the United
States Army Air Forces. The base was responsible for continued population
growth in Santa Ana and the rest of Orange County as many veterans moved to the
area to raise families after the end of the war.
Santa Ana was at
the centre of Orange County's economic boom in the 1950s with its agricultural
and defence industries.
In 1958, the
Honer Plaza and Bullock's Fashion Square malls opened and would supplant
Downtown Santa Ana, with its department stores such as Rankin's, Ward's,
Penney's and Buffums. Fashion Square was completely
renovated and became Main Place Mall in 1987.
Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach is
a coastal city of about 85,000 in southern Orange County, California. Newport
Beach is known for swimming and sandy beaches.
The State of
California sold acre-plots of land for $1 a piece in
the Newport area. Anglo-American inhabitation in the area grew substantially
following 1870 when a 105-ton steamer named The Vaquero, captained by Captain
Samuel S. Dunnells (against warnings posted by surveyors), safely steered
through the lower and upper bay of Newport where it unloaded its cargo. James
Irvine upon hearing the astonishing news, quickly traveled
from his home in San Francisco to the San Joaquin Ranch. Meeting in Irvine's
ranch house near current day UC Irvine with his brother, Robert Irvine, and
friend James McFadden, they agreed that the newly found port should be simply
named "Newport" which is where Newport Beach gets its name. James
McFadden built a long McFadden Wharf in 1888.
In 1905, city
development increased when Pacific Electric Railway established a southern
terminus in Newport connecting the beach with downtown Los Angeles. In 1906
(with a population of 206 citizens), the scattered settlements were
incorporated as the City of Newport Beach.
Settlements were
filled in on the Peninsula, West Newport, Newport Island, Balboa Island, and
Lido Isle.
In 1923, Corona
del Mar was annexed and in 2002, Newport Coast, East Santa Ana Heights, and San
Joaquin Hills were annexed. In 2008, after a long battle with the city of Costa
Mesa, Newport Beach annexed West Santa Ana Heights