What is the history of Orange, California?
The original inhabitants of the region that now comprises the City of Orange, California were Native Americans in the United StatesNative American peoples, known as TongvaGabrielinos to the local Spanish peopleSpanish settlers. In 1801 Don Juan Pablo Grijalva, a retired Spanish soldier and the area’s first landowner, he was granted permission by the Spanish colonial government to establish a rancho in “the place of the Arroyo de Santiago.” California was ceded to the United States by México with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and though many settlers lost titles to their lands in the aftermath, Grijalva’s descendants retained ownership of his vast holdings. In 1869, Los Angeles attorneys Alfred Chapman and Andrew Glassell received as payment for legal services 1,385 acres (6 km sq) of land from Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, which they quickly subdivided into a one-square-mile town with numerous ten acre (40,000 m sq) farm lots surrounding it. Originally the com
