City of Anaheim history

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.

Despite earlier failed attempts to become independent of the city of Los Angeles, Orange County was formed in 1889.

The Southern California Fruit Growers Exchange, which was later renamed Sunkist, was organized in 1893.

By 1920, the population had risen to 5,526, and Anaheim was an agricultural community that was as tightly knit as a small town can be.

Frohling passed on only a few years ago [1923], but her house is still standing and is one of the few early landmarks of Anaheim’s history.

In 1924, the Ku Klux Klan got four of its members elected to Anaheim's five-member board of trustees, giving them control of city government.

A huge flood in 1938 caused the creation of a program to control the Santa Ana River, and the Prado Dam was built upstream to regulate the flow of the sometimes violent waterway.

After 1950 the community’s citrus groves all but disappeared as a result of the Los Angeles–Orange county urban-industrial expansion.

Disneyland opened in 1955 and almost immediately changed the face of Anaheim.

Anaheim Memorial Medical Center has served the residents of Anaheim since 1958.

The Angels began play in 1961 as one of two expansion teams (with the Washington Senators) awarded by Major League Baseball that season—baseball’s first additions to either of the two major leagues in 60 years.

The team was renamed the California Angels in 1965.

Anaheim Stadium was built in 1966 for major league baseball.

In 1967 the Anaheim Convention Center was opened.

The Angels endured another notable collapse in 1995, squandering a record 111/2-game divisional lead over the Seattle Mariners with six weeks left in the season.

In December 2000, the center was expanded by 40 percent; its 815,000 square feet of exhibit space makes it the largest exhibit facility on the West Coast.

Los Angeles Angels, American professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California, that plays in the American League (AL). The Angels won a World Series title in 2002, their first appearance in the “Fall Classic.”

In 2005 the team changed its name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

The Angels made one of the biggest free-agent additions in baseball history prior to the 2012 season when they signed three-time Most Valuable Player Albert Pujols to a 10-year contract.

That loaded Angels team broke through in 2014, winning a major-league-best 98 games during the regular season, but the team was surprisingly swept by the Kansas City Royals in its AL Division Series.

In 2015 the Angels missed out on a second consecutive postseason by one game but fell off to a fourth-place finish the following year.