Under a Spanish land concession, the area was developed as Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana for grazing and livestock farming. Spurgeon bought 70 acres and laid out a town, kept the tradition and named the new town Santa Ana. 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. After the Mexican War of Independence, the Yorba family ranch expanded, becoming one of the largest and most valuable in the region and home to a diverse community in California.
After the U.S. conquest of California, the ranch was sold to the Sepúlveda family, who later lost their land claim. Spurgeon later bought the ranch and formally founded the modern city of Santa Ana. Select theme to display the preview image.
This town hall had three floors and a strongly vertical Art Deco appearance. Its front façade was divided into five bays, the central one containing the main entrance and a single-storey tower that projected above the parapet line. The front door had two bearded gatekeepers on each side, represented in a cross between Classic and Art Deco styles. A Depression-era project funded in part by the Construction Progress Administration (WPA), the city of Santa Ana could leverage skilled labor at low prices.
The exterior had elegant and carefully crafted details: a durable stone cladding, carved friezes, bronze window screens and window frames, and a dark marble base. Its shape is reminiscent of both an ancient Assyrian or Mesopotamian bastion and a contemporary skyscraper. Sculptures of two bearded guards on pilasters flanking the main entrance of the town hall. The three-story building was built in the Art Deco style, with a strongly vertical appearance and quasi-traditional geometric ornamentation.
A four-story tower marked the location of the main entrance when viewed from a distance. Like most minority-majority cities in the United States, Santa Ana is a stronghold of the Democratic Party. Operate your Pacific Surfliner between San Diego to the south and Los Angeles or San Luis Obispo to the north (see Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center). Santa Ana's population growth is attributed in part to the Santa Ana Army Air Base that was built here as a training center during World War II for the U.
The Santa Ana Unified School District includes 37 K-5 elementary schools, nine middle schools 6-8, eight high schools 9-12, five special schools, and one charter school. Having been a constituent city since November 11, 1952, the citizens of Santa Ana amended the charter in November 1988 to provide for the direct election of the mayor, who until then had been appointed from among the members of the council. In 1810, the first year of Mexico's War of Independence, José Antonio Yorba, a sergeant in the Spanish army, was granted land that he called Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The profile of the city of Santa Ana in Orange County, California, includes the history of the city and information on residential services, shops, restaurants and points of interest throughout the city.
Chiarini and recognize the artists who have helped make downtown Santa Ana a creative hub in Orange County. Also on the east side of the city is the Santa Ana Zoo, which stands out for its collection of monkeys and species from South and Central America. Santa Ana, approximately four-fifths of Latinos, has been characterized by The New York Times as the face of a new California, a state in which Latinos have more influence in everyday electoral, cultural and demographic life than almost anywhere else in the country. 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.
Amtrak, the national passenger train system, serves Santa Ana several times Monday through Friday with less frequent service on weekends. Santa Ana has several wall paintings and murals that represent local history, community events, and cultural diversity in Orange County. The community developed as a center for Santa Ana Valley produce after the South Pacific Railroad connected it (187) to Los Angeles. .
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