Rich in diversity, a growing community and an evolving downtown business district.
Santa Ana
is home to the Bowers Museum, the Santa Ana Zoo and the Discovery Cube of Orange County. Locals enjoy historic staples, but they also embrace new businesses, family stores, and the city's thriving arts community. The Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana places special emphasis on things related to the Second World War.The museum is located at John Wayne Airport and has many items worth seeing. There are motorcycles, vehicles used by the military, cars and, of course, airplanes. Some of the most famous aircraft include a Cessna O-1E Dog and a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. The Lyon Air Museum is an excellent day out for the family and the information along with each exhibition makes the trip interesting and educational.
Santa Ana is known for its strong work ethic and the pride of its neighborhoods. Santa Ana is a place with a soul. This is where diversity brings people together, combining individual strengths to achieve a community in balance with economic vitality and livability. In 1887, the California Central Railroad (which became a subsidiary of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway the following year) broke the local South Pacific monopoly on rail travel, offering services between Los Angeles and San Diego via Santa Ana as a major intermediate station.
The Garden Grove Highway (State Route 2) runs near the northern border of Santa Ana and connects Long Beach to the west and the city of Orange to the east. Some highways cross Santa Ana and connect it to other areas of Orange County, the greater Los Angeles area and beyond. After the expedition of Gaspar de Portolá in 1769 from Mexico City, then capital of New Spain, Fr. Junípero Serra called the Vallejo area of Santa Ana (Santa Ana Valley or Santa Ana Valley).
Since the 1980s, Santa Ana has been characterized by an effort to revitalize the downtown area, whose influence had diminished, even as it had become a dynamic shopping and entertainment center for working-class Latinos. Santa Ana's East End neighborhood is home to several unique boutiques, quirky local retail stores, attractive cafes and galleries, and creative spaces. Named the county seat in 1889, Santa Ana is also known as the financial and governmental center of Orange County. By the 1970s, Santa Ana legislators advocated the reinvestment and active preservation of downtown's historic architectural heritage.
Working over the years to revitalize downtown, Santa Ana now has The Santa Ana Artist's Village, which was created around the Grand Central Art Center of Cal State Fullerton. Santa Ana, approximately four-fifths Latino, has been characterized by The New York Times as the face of a new California, a state where Latinos have more influence in everyday electoral, cultural and demographic life than almost anywhere else in the country. Visit downtown Santa Ana to explore the many quaint historic buildings and check out aesthetically pleasing Art Deco architecture.
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Ana and the leadership of the APA California Chapter with the Great Neighborhoods certificate of downtown Santa The origins of Santa Ana began in 1810, when the Spanish governor of California granted the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana to José Antonio Yorba.The River View golf course in Santa Ana has a complete practice center and an 18-hole course. Charles Bowers was a land developer who lived in Orange County and before his death he donated land to the city of Santa Ana. In 1905, the Los Angeles Interurban Railroad, predecessor of the Pacific Electric Railway, extended from Los Angeles to Santa Ana, passing Fourth Street in the city center. .
