City of Anaheim history

These men under the leadership of one George Hansen, carefully looked over many sites and in September 1857, came to a final decision.

In 1860 the Anaheim Vineyard Company sold out to the Anaheim Water Company.

During the winter of 1861-62 the Santa Ana River overflowed the colony site and the school was rendered unsafe because the foundations were damaged.

L.P. Webber, founder of Westminster colony, in 1869.

Anaheim was incorporated as a city February 10, 1870 but the tax burden was too great for the people to bear, so two years later it was dis-incorporated.

The church edifice which cost $3,500 was built in 1872.

Railroad service was provided by the Southern Pacific Railway, which established itself in the city in 1875.

Anaheim was incorporated in 1876 with a population of 881.

As the community grew this little school house became inadequate and in 1877 Professor J.M. Guinn, who had been the principal of the Anaheim Schools for eight years, drafted a resolution authorizing the district to issue bonds to the amount of $10,000.

Anaheim was incorporated as a city February 10, 1870 but the tax burden was too great for the people to bear, so two years later it was dis-incorporated. It was again incorporated by an act of legislature on March 18, 1878.

In 1879 the Anaheim Water Company bought a half interest in this ditch, and all the water rights on the north side of the Santa Ana River were consolidated into the Anaheim Union Water Company, which is still in existence and is filling a great need exceedingly well.

But in 1885 a strange disease attacked the vines and within five years the two million vines that made up this huge vineyard were dead.

In 1887, the construction of the Santa Fe depot linked Anaheim’s citrus growers with the East, providing vital markets for their golden crops.