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Welcome aboard this new series, Car Free Orange County (Car Free OC) on my AntSol Travel Blog. This series is about getting to places from Anaheim Resort area to destinations around Southern California without a car. This is to educate my coworkers about navigation and destinations that they and guests can get to without a car from the Anaheim Resort area where we work.
For more context, check out part one of the series on my blog: [ Ссылка ]
From Anaheim, next is Orange going through industrial areas and then to Orange passing through Chapman University & Old Towne. The city was founded in 1871 and was built out from the circle of the old town, just a couple blocks from the Orange train depot. Most of Southern California was primarily farm and ranch land when the land was allocated during the Mexican Land Grants. What is now Orange County, had many citrus fields, which gave the county the name. Most of the fields were sold off to developers in the 1960s, with rapid suburbanization of the land due to the freeways and cars getting cheaper during the time. Next is Santa Ana, the county seat, as the county staff would get off here if they took the train. The next two stops are Tustin and Irvine. Both cities were part of the land grant and ranch land that James Irvine & his ranch partners bought or received land and worked on. After his passing in 1886, his son James II inherited the land and established the Irvine Company as an agricultural company and then still ranched on the land. After World War II, many people wanted to move to Orange County and have a family, as well as the Boomer generation, was getting ready for college. The University of California system bought the land for what is now @UCIrvine in 1961 for a dollar. With the influx of students, the @IrvineCompany shifted its focus from agriculture and sold its land or built on its land for development. It was master planned from the ground up for the city of Irvine to be an ideal suburban community since they had full ownership of the land. Both Tustin and Irvine are home is many offices as the Irvine Company built many office buildings, warehouses, commercial sites, and housing development to incentivize companies to move or add a new office in Irvine. After that is the final stop of this train, Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo. Like Irvine, these cities are master-planned, with the majority of the housing stock when it was first built in the 1970s and 1980s being single-family homes with an occasional apartment or condo complex. Around the same time, Saddleback College and the Shops at Mission Viejo were built.
