Placentia, California

Orange County

06-57526

Placentia is a city in Orange County in the U.S. state of California with 48,700 inhabitants ( 2004).

Geography

The metropolitan area has a size of 17.1 km ².

History

1837 transferred the authority responsible for the area of the current Southern California's Mexican governor of a vast stretch of land that encompasses today's cities Anaheim, Fullerton, La Habra, Placentia and Yorba Linda, Juan Ontiveros, who was called El Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana.

1865 came with Daniel Kramer, the first English-speaking pioneer in the field and earned 16 km ² of land. 1868 was followed by William and Sarah Ann McFadden, who bought 400,000 sqm and their new home gave the name " Placentia ", which should derive from the Latin as much as meaning " a pleasant place to live ."

1910 convinced AS Bradford, who laid out and the road network of the city, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to lay their route to Los Angeles by Placentia. The train station and the growing Agrarindustie ( citrus fruits, walnuts, avocados and grapes) procured the young city soon greater importance.

Nevertheless, in 1926 only 500 inhabitants lived in Placentia and up to 1960 the population grew to just 5,000. In the course of incorporations in Orange County over the next ten years the population of the municipality then rose to over 25,000. Meanwhile, the mark of 45,000 inhabitants has been exceeded.

In the 1990s, the city Placentias had come down compared to its neighboring communities; officially became the railway line that once brought the city prosperity, blamed for the decline. Due to the Alameda Corridor project in the south of Los Angeles inspired the project OnTrac was launched that the railway lines will sink into concrete ditch several meters deep. The aim was to reduce the noise level and to increase the security in that the track crossings are avoided. The mismanagement of the financial management led the city into crisis. Then when failed to commitments made by the federal government, the city threatened the almost bankrupt, which could only be avoided by public benefits were drastically curtailed. By 2004, the controversy over OnTrac stopped and it is not certain whether the project will ever be completed.

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