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Huntington Beach
--On a recent visit to
downtown Los Angeles with lunch at the
Pinot restaurant, we wandered through
the plazas, past large buildings and the
Wells Fargo Museum. Wandering inside, an
interesting map caught my eye. It is an
original map from 1889, showing Orange
County, California. On the map are
boundaries drawn much different than
today. Large blocks of land that would
later become cities (now over 30 in
Orange County) and one of the densest
counties in California, show huge
sections of land owned by an individual.
Its fantastic that a
map such as this has been preserved and
still exists, allowing people to seee
physical archived evidence of what
existed just over a century ago.
The map pictured above
is on display at the Wells Fargo Museum
in downtown Los Angles. An arrow points
to Rancho Las Bolsas, a portion of which
is currently
known as the
Bolsa Chica Ecological
Reserve.
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