About La Habra, California:
A century ago, the area that now is La Habra was a sparsely populated valley dominated by herds of sheep and fields of barley. Aside from the wooden ranch house owned by Jose Sansinena that overlooked what is now Hacienda Road, the valley's only structures were an occasional shepherd's shack. Sansinena, a Frenchborn Basque shepherd, owned the northern third of modern-day La Habra. The Puente Hills, where Sansinena's sheep roamed, was prime grazing land, as were the Coyote Hills in southern La Habra, owned by Domingo Bastanchury, another Basque shepherd and Sansinena's former boss. Today, much of Bastanchury's land makes up the southern third of La Habra. Between Sansinena's and Bastanchury's land was a central strip belonging to a company formed by Abel Stearns, a Massachusetts merchant who leased the land to barley farmers. Two or three years after Orange County was formed in 1889, the first group of non-sheepherding settlers came into the La Habra valley. The Stearns company began selling them the land that would become centeral La Habra. With the newcomers came the idea of planting fruit trees, and as in much of the county, orange groves sprange up. Among that group of early La Habra settlers was the Milhous family, the grandparents of future La Habra lawyer and US President Richard Nixon. By 1903 a blacksmith shop, country store and hardware store with a post office where the core of the fledgling town. That same year, oil was discovered on the part of Bastanchury's land that is within present-day La Habra. That parcel was sold to the Standard Oil Co., its current owner, in 1911. The Pacific Electric Railway arrived in 1908, creating opportunities to ship tomatoes and cabbages grown in the area. The population had grown to a few hundred people. The oil and increased farming - citrus became the prime crop - sparked a minor boom before World War I. Citrus packing houses moved in and more industry was established in the next two decades. In 1925, with a population of about 4,000, La Habra was incorporated. After World War II, an industry and population explosion hit La Habra. The Alpha Beta Co. established its headquatrters there in 1952. The '50s and '60s is an era that can be called the era of the vanishing grove when houses mushroomed overnight. Today, Standard Oil still owns wells in southern La Habra and the city's bedroom-community reputation established in the '50s and '60s remains. Points of Interest: Children's Museum of La Habra and La Habra Depot Theatre.
La Habra includes the friendly communities of Acacia Park, Adelle Terrace Townhomes, Beach Terrace, Brandywyne, Brookdale, Casa Linda, Casa Loma Village, Chelsea Place, Classic Homes, Country Hills East, Country Terrace, Coyote Creek, Crest at Westridge, Fashion Heights, Gables, Hidden Lakes, La Habra Heights Estates, La Habra Hills Estates, La Habra Woods Townhomes, La Plaza, Lakeview Townhomes, Mira Vista, North Hills, Park View, Parkside Townhomes, Pointe at Westridge, Reserve, The, Smoke Tree, Stone Harbor, Sunny Hills Village and Woodlake Village. If you are looking to buy or sell a home in any of these fine communities, call Coast Capital. We're with you Every Step of the Way!
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