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RESOLUTION NO. 2019-091 <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, marking <br />a century and a half of remarkable history, extraordinary human endeavor, unique and <br />essential diversity, civic and social activism, heroic individual and community <br />accomplishment, selfless sacrifice, progressive idealism, steadfast governance, an <br />active and caring populace; and <br />WHEREAS, the earliest known origins of what is now the City of Santa Ana <br />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 rancho <br />families; and <br />WHEREAS, Santa Ana was listed as a township of Los Angeles County in the <br />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 which was <br />obtained from the descendants of Jose Antonio Yorba; and <br />WHEREAS, Santa Ana was incorporated as a city in 1886 with a population of <br />2000 and, in 1889, became the seat of the newly formed Orange County; and <br />WHEREAS, in 1887, the California Central Railway, which became a subsidiary <br />of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway the following year, broke the Southern <br />Pacific's local monopoly on rail travel and offered service between Los Angeles and San <br />Diego by way of Santa Ana as a major intermediate station; and <br />WHEREAS, by 1905, the Los Angeles Interurban Railway, a predecessor to the <br />Pacific Electric Railway, extended from Los Angeles to Santa Ana, running along Fourth <br />Street in downtown Santa Ana; and <br />WHEREAS, Firestone Boulevard, the first direct automobile route between Los <br />Angeles and Santa Ana, opened in 1935 and was later enlarged into the Santa Ana 5 <br />Freeway in 1953; and <br />WHEREAS, on November 11, 1952 the citizens of the City adopted a City <br />Charter; and <br />Resolution No. 2019-091 <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />