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RESOLUTION NO. 2019-xx <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />SANTA ANA DECLARING OCTOBER 27, 2019, CITY OF <br />SANTA ANA DAY IN CELEBRATION OF THE CITY'S <br />150TH ANNIVERSARY <br />WHEREAS, the City of is now celebrating its glorious 150th Anniversary, <br />marking a century and a half of remarkable history, extraordinary human endeavor, <br />unique and essential diversity, civic and social activism, heroic individual and <br />community accomplishment, selfless sacrifice, progressive idealism, steadfast <br />governance, an active and caring populace; and <br />WHEREAS, the earliest known origins of what is now the City of Santa <br />Ana revolve the tribal Tongva and Juaneno/Luiseno people who were indigenous to the <br />area; and <br />WHEREAS, Santa Ana's history is tied to the Spanish land grants and <br />rancho families; and <br />WHEREAS, Santa Ana was listed as a township of Los Angeles County in <br />the 1860 census, with an area encompassing most of what is now northern and central <br />Orange County, with a population of 756; and <br />WHEREAS, in 1869 William H. Spurgeon claimed the Santa Ana land <br />which was obtained from the descendants of Jose Antonio Yorba; and <br />WHEREAS, Santa Ana was incorporated as a city in 1886 with a <br />population of 2000 and, in 1889, became the seat of the newly formed Orange County; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, in 1887, the California Central Railway, which became a <br />subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway the following year, broke the <br />Southern Pacific's local monopoly on rail travel and offered service between Los <br />Angeles and San Diego by way of Santa Ana as a major intermediate station; and <br />WHEREAS, by 1905, the Los Angeles Interurban Railway, a predecessor <br />to the Pacific Electric Railway, extended from Los Angeles to Santa Ana, running along <br />Fourth Street in downtown Santa Ana, and <br />WHEREAS, Firestone Boulevard, the first direct automobile route between <br />Los Angeles and Santa Ana, opened in 1935 and was later enlarged into the Santa Ana <br />5 Freeway in 1953; and <br />#11992v2 <br />Resolution No. 2019-XXX <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />55A-3 <br />