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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORT FAIRVIEW STREET IMPROVEMENTS FROM 9TH STREET TO 16TH STREET AND JUNE 2019 BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA Place Names Fairview In October of 1877, 1,762 acres of land was purchased and the town site of Fairview laid out south of Santa Ana and north of Newport Bay (Meadows 1966:62). A large boulevard, now Fairview Street, was opened. A 50-acre business and residential area was set aside around a warm artesian well, with the remaining acreage intended as farmland. A hotel, stores, church, school, and public swimming "plunge" were constructed. A railroad was also built between Santa Ana and the new town of Fairview. On April 3, 1888, a post office was established with I. Wellington Gardiner as the first postmaster (Salley 1977:72). By October 1888, the town had a population of 1,200. However, the basis of the town was loans, and by 1889, the promoters faced financial ruin after the real estate boom reversed in late 1888. In February 1889, the railroad was washed out by heavy rains. By April of 1889, the community had lost half of its inhabitants and by the end of the year the town was almost a ghost town. The paper folded, and by May 1903, the post office closed and the hotel was demolished for its lumber (Meadows 1966:62). By 1910, the area had reverted to agricultural fields. Fairview is depicted on the 1896 15' Santa Ana, California USGS (1896) map. During WWII, the Santa Ana Army Air Base was established on land that was once part of Fairview. Shortly after WWII, Orange Coast College acquired some of this land. Today, the college library is 600 yards east of where the Fairview Hotel and the plunge had once been (Meadows 1966:62). Garden Grove As a place name, the word garden is used generically throughout the United States. In California, there are a dozen such named communities (Gudde 1998:140). The Orange County city was originally a farming community and Garden Grove was a real estate promotion name (Salley 1977:82). The town of Garden Grove was founded in 1876 when Dr. A.G. Cook and Converse Howe laid out the town around a church and a schoolhouse near the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Garden Grove Boulevard. Howe built a general store on the southeast corner of the intersection and on March 16, 1877, a post office named Garden Grove opened in the building (Meadows 1966:66). David W. Webster was the first postmaster (Salley 1977:82). The town continued as an agricultural community until after WWII, when it began several years of spectacular growth, much of it based on servicemen settling in California after having been brought to the area during the war. The City incorporated on June 18, 1956 (Meadows 1966:66). Red Hill Spanish Period land concessions and Mexican Period Ranchos were often marked by readily identifiable physiographic landforms, and Red Hill was an important landmark during these and earlier times. Located at an elevation of 349 feet about 6 miles east of the APE, Red Hill is an isolated hill, forming the southwestern point of Loma Ridge that is a "mass of red and ochre -colored rocks" (Meadows 1966:118). It was the eastern boundary of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, and as well as the western boundary of Rancho Lomas de Santiago. It is also the northwest corner of Q:\WKE1702\Cultural\ASR\ASR 2019 OS-21.docx (06/03/19) 16