75C - PH - BRISTOL EIR FROM WARNER TO ST. ANDREW

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cannot be made. There is no basis for establishing the archaeological potential or value of the area and there is presently no means of de- veloping the data necessary for such evaluation. AREA HISTORY: The historical era opens in Orange County with the Porto la expedition of 1769, but nothing of note occurred in the project area until 1810. On 10 July of that year the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana was granted by Spanish Governor ArrelIago to Jose Antonia Yorba and Juan Pablo Peralta. This 62,516 acre rancho was the only Spanish grant which was completely vsithin the area which would become Orange County. The current project area is contained completely within the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana (Meadows 1966). In 1869 the City of Santa Ana was founded by William Kenry Spurgeon. He originally laid out 24 blocks with 10 lots each in the area of present downtown Santa Ana and the Civic Center. He built and operated a store at what is now Fourth Street and Broadway (Alex 196b, Swanner 1953), In 1889, Orange County was esatblished as a separate entity and the City of Santa Ana became the county seat. BRISTOL STREET HISTORY: The earliest reference to Bristol as a func- tioning street and structures near it is found in the previously cited 1877 Map of the County of Los Angeles. The map identifies one structure as the "Old Sepulveda House." This residence was located near what is now the intersection of Richland Avenue and Central Street, several blocks to the west of the current project area. The Ds amond Grammar School was also in existence in 1877, it was located along what would become Edinger Avenue, several blocks west of the Bristol Street intersection. There were three buildings fr rating ors Bristol Street in 1377. ❑n-• of these was located on the west side of the street south of Edinger Avenue, about where the Baptist Church now stands, This house was on land iden- ified as belonging to Lang. The other two buildings were located direct- ly across Bristol Street or property belonging to W. F. Koil, Bristol Street ended in its southerly extreme near what is now St. Andrew Place. No further reference could he found related to the structures existing along Bristol Street in 1977. 75C -740