Costa
Mesa California
Costa Mesa is a city
in Orange County California.
Members of the Tongva and Juaneño/Luiseño nations
long inhabited the area. After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de
Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Father Junipero Serra
named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana (Valley of Saint Anne). On
November 1, 1776, Mission San
Juan Capistrano became the areas first permanent European
settlement in Alta California, New Spain.
In 1801, the Spanish Empire granted 62,500 acres to Jose Antonio
Yorba, which he named Rancho San Antonio. Yorba's great rancho
included the lands where the cities of Olive, Orange, Villa Park,
Santa Ana, Tustin,
Costa Mesa and Newport
Beach stand today.
After the Mexican-American war, California became part of the
United States and American settlers arrived in this area and formed
the town of Fairview in the 1880s near the modern intersection
of Harbor Boulevard and Adams Avenue. An 1889 flood wiped out
the railroad serving the community, however, and it shriveled.
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