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Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA



 


Notizen:
Wikipedia 2016:

Santa Ana (Spanish for "Saint Anne") is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California. The United States Census Bureau estimated its 2011 population at 329,427, making Santa Ana the 57th most-populous city in the United States.

Santa Ana is located in Southern California, adjacent to the Santa Ana River, about 10 miles (16 km) away from the California coast. Founded in 1869, the city is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, the second largest metropolitan area in the United States with almost 18 million residents in 2010. Santa Ana is a very densely populated city, ranking fourth nationally in that regard among cities of over 300,000 residents (trailing only New York City, San Francisco, and Boston). In 2011 Forbes ranked Santa Ana the fourth-safest city of over 250,000 residents in the United States.

Santa Ana lends its name to the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5), which runs through the city. It also shares its name with the nearby Santa Ana Mountains, and the Santa Ana winds, which have historically fueled seasonal wildfires throughout Southern California. The current Office of Management and Budget (OMB) metropolitan designation for the Orange County Area is Santa Ana–Anaheim–Irvine, California.

History:

After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolá out of Mexico City, then capitol of New Spain, Friar Junípero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana (Valley of Saint Anne, or Santa Ana Valley). On November 1, 1776, Mission San Juan Capistrano was established within this valley. This Santa Ana Valley comprised most of what is now called Orange County.

In 1810, year of the commencement of the war of Mexican Independence (1810–1821), Jose Antonio Yorba, a sergeant of the Spanish army, was granted land that he called Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. Yorba's rancho included the lands where the cities of Olive, Orange, Irvine, Yorba Linda, Villa Park, Santa Ana, Tustin, Costa Mesa and unincorporated El Modena, and Santa Ana Heights, are today. This rancho was the only land grant in Orange County granted under Spanish Rule. Surrounding land grants in Orange County were granted after Mexican Independence by the new government.

After the Mexican-American war ended in 1848, Alta California became part of the United States and American settlers arrived in this area.

Claimed in 1869 by Kentuckian William H. Spurgeon on land obtained from the descendents of Jose Antonio Yorba, Santa Ana was incorporated as a city in 1886 with a population of 2000 and in 1889 became the seat of the newly formed Orange County.

In 1877, the Southern Pacific Railroad built a branch line from Los Angeles to Santa Ana, which offered free right of way, land for a depot, and $10,000 in cash to the railroad in exchange for terminating the line in Santa Ana and not neighboring Tustin. In 1887, the California Central Railway (which became a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway the following year) broke the Southern Pacific's local monopoly on rail travel, offering service between Los Angeles and San Diego by way of Santa Ana as a major intermediate station. 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.

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 defense contractor in the world, Lockheed Martin.

During World War II, the Santa Ana Army Air Base was built as a training center 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.

In 1958, Fashion Square Mall was built, adjoining the existing Bullock's Department Store building that was built in 1954. It opened north of downtown and became a major retail center for the area. In 1987, the mall was completely renovated and became MainPlace Mall (now Westfield MainPlace).

Having been a Charter City since November 11, 1952, the citizens of Santa Ana amended the Charter November 1988 to provide for the direct election of the Mayor who until that point had been appointed from the council membership. The current mayor of Santa Ana is Miguel A. Pulido, the first mayor of Latino descent in the city's history and in fact, the first Mayor directly elected by the voters.

Since the 1980s, Santa Ana has been characterized by an effort to revitalize the downtown area which had declined in influence. The Santa Ana Artist's Village was created around Cal State Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center to attract artists and young professionals to live-work lofts and new businesses. The process has continued into 2009 with the reopening of the historic Yost Theater.

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Geburt

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Geburt    Personen-Kennung 
1 Karnatz, Otto Henry Jr.  16 Apr 1930Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I105930
2 Karnatz, Patricia Alena  28 Dez 1934Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I105936
3 Karnatz, Dr. Raymond Virgil  25 Okt 1928Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I105929
4 Mushrush, Mima Jean  17 Jul 1928Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I2418
5 Weeler, Ruth  9 Mrz 1904Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I105928

Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 Breitbach, Leo Francis  30 Mai 1997Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I151114
2 Holland, Mona Belle  17 Nov 1954Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I183203
3 Niemoth, Johanna Wilhemmina  7 Jan 1936Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I25904
4 O'Donaghue, William E.  31 Aug 1973Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I35361
5 Senger, Josephine Helena  5 Dez 1940Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I191719
6 Tschudy, Harley L.  5 Jun 1966Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I35378
7 Wilford, Floyd Andrew  18 Feb 2015Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I110765
8 Zimpelmann, Herman William  Jul 1963Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I192813

Beerdigung

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Beerdigung    Personen-Kennung 
1 Dockter, Christine R. - wife of  Apr 1984Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I97779
2 Dockter, Johann H.  Mrz 1964Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I97778
3 Rurup, Clarence Edward  Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA I158569

Eheschließung

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   Familie    Eheschließung    Familien-Kennung 
1 Hughes / Mushrush  4 Jun 1950Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA F772
2 Kuntz / Witte  4 Nov 1918Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA F32386
3 O'Donaghue / Blakkolb  23 Mrz 1963Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA F11805
4 Sturms / Mendenhall  17 Mrz 1930Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA F48849