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California
A brief guide to some of the locations in California associated with the Farndale family
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Introduction
Dates are in red.
Hyperlinks to other pages are in dark blue.
Headlines of the history of Bradford are
in brown.
References and citations are in turquoise.
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