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About Long Beach, California via Wikipedia

Indigenous people have lived in coastal Southern California for over 10,000 years , during which several successive cultures inhabited the present -day area of Long Beach. By the time Spanish explorers arrived in the 16th centur y, the dominant group were the Tongva people . They had at least three major settlements within the present-day city boundaries . Tevaaxa'anga was an inland settlement near the Los Angeles River, while Ahwaanga and Povuu'nga were coastal villages . Along with other Tongva villages , they were forced to relocate in the mid -19th centur y due to missionization, political change , and a drastic drop in population from exposure to European diseases . [17] In 1784 the Spanish Empire's King Carlos III granted Rancho Los Nietos to Spanish soldier Manuel Nieto. The Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos were divided from this territor y. The boundar y between the two ranchos ran through the center of Signal Hill on a southwest to nor theast diagonal. A por tion of western Long Beach was originally par t of the Rancho San Pedro. Its boundaries were in dispute for years , due to flooding changing the Los Angeles River boundar y, between the ranchos of Juan Jose Dominguez and Manuel Nieto. In 1843 Jonathan Temple bought Rancho Los Cerritos , after arriving in California in 1827 from New England. He built what is now known as the " Los Cerritos Ranch House ", an adobe which still stands and is a National Historic Landmark . Temple created a thriving cattle ranch and prospered, becoming the wealthiest man in Los Angeles County. Both Temple and his ranch house played impor tant local roles in the Mexicanâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; American War. On an island in the San Pedro Bay, Mormon pioneers made an abor tive attempt to establish a colony (as par t of Brigham Young's plan to establish a continuous chain of settlements from the Pacific to Salt Lake). Long Beach pier, 1905 In 1866 Temple sold Rancho Los Cerritos for $20,000 to the Nor thern California sheep -raising firm of Flint, Bixby & Co, which consisted of brothers Thomas and Benjamin Flint and their cousin Lewellyn Bixby. Two years previous Flint, Bixby & Co had also purchased along with Nor thern California associate James Ir vine , three ranchos which would later become the city that bears Ir vine's name . To manage Rancho Los Cerritos , the company selected Lewellyn's brother Jotham Bixby, the "Father of Long Beach". Three years later Bixby bought into the proper ty and would later form the Bixby Land Company. In the 1870s as many as 30,000 sheep were kept at the ranch and sheared twice yearly to provide wool for trade . In 1880, Bixby sold 4,000 acres (16 km 2 ) of the Rancho Los Cerritos to William E. Willmore , who subdivided it in hopes of creating a farm community, Willmore City. He failed and was bought out by a Los Angeles syndicate that called itself the "Long Beach Land and Water Company." They changed the name of the community to Long Beach, at that time . The City of Long Beach was officially incorporated in 1897.

Long Beach boardwalk, 1907 Another Bixby cousin, John W. Bixby, was influential in the city. After first working for his cousins at Los Cerritos , J.W. Bixby leased land atRancho Los Alamitos . He put together a group: banker I.W. Hellman, Lewellyn and Jotham Bixby, and him, to purchase the rancho. In addition to bringing innovative farming methods to the Alamitos (which under Abel Stearns in the late 1850s and early 1860s was once the largest cattle ranch in the US), J.W. Bixby began the development of the oceanfront proper ty near the city's picturesque bluffs . Under the name Alamitos Land Company, J.W. Bixby named the streets and laid out the parks of his new city. This area would include Belmont Heights , Belmont Shore and Naples; it soon became a thriving community of its own. J.W. Bixby died in 1888 of apparent appendicitis . The Rancho Los Alamitos proper ty was split up, with Hellman getting the southern third, Jotham and Lewellyn the nor thern third, and J.W. Bixby's widow and heirs keeping the central third.

About Long Beach, California via Wikipedia The Alamitos townsite was kept as a separate entity, but at first it was primarily run by Lewellyn and Jotham Bixby, although I.W, Hellman (who had the largest single share) had a significant veto power, an influence made even stronger as the J.W. Bixby heirs began to side with Hellman more and more . When Jotham Bixby died in 1916, the remaining 3,500 acres (14 km 2 ) of Rancho Los Cerritos was subdivided into the neighborhoods of Bixby Knolls , California Heights , Nor th Long Beach and par t of the city of Signal Hill. The town grew as a seaside resor t with light agricultural uses . [18] The Pike was the most famous beachside amusement zone on the West Coast from 1902 until 1969, it offered bathers food, games and rides , such at the Sky Wheel dual Ferris wheel and Cyclone Racer roller coaster. Gradually the oil industr y, Navy shipyard and facilities and por t became the mainstays of the city. In the 1950s it was referred to as "Iowa by the sea," due to a large influx of people from that and other Midwestern states . Huge picnics for migrants from each state were a popular annual event in Long Beach until the 1960s . Oil was discovered in 1921 on Signal Hill, which split off as a separate incorporated city shor tly afterward. The discover y of the Long Beach Oil Field , brought in by the gusher at the Alamitos No. 1 well, made Long Beach a major oil producer ; in the 1920s the field was the most productive in the world. [19] In 1932, the even larger Wilmington Oil Field, four th-largest in the United States , and which is mostly in Long Beach, was developed, contributing to the city's fame in the 1930s as an oil town. [20] The M6.4 1933 Long Beach ear thquake caused significant damage to the city and surrounding areas , killing a total of 120 people . Most of the damage occurred in unreinforced masonr y buildings , especially schools . Pacific Bible Seminar y (now known as Hope International University ) was forced to move classes out of First Christian Church of Long Beach and into a small local home due to damage . [21] The new Ford assembly plant in Long Beach, 1930 The Ford Motor Company built a factor y called Long Beach Assembly at the then address in 1929 as "700 Henr y Ford Avenue , Long Beach" where the factor y began building the Ford Model A. Production of Ford vehicles continued after the war until 1960 when the plant was closed due to a fire , [22] and Januar y 1991 when the factor y was demolished par tially due to air quality remediation effor ts . Ford had earlier opened a Factor y in Los Angeles at the location of 12th Street and Olive , with a later factor y built at East Seventh Street and Santa Fe Avenue after 1914. [23] The city was the site of "The Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942" during World War II, when obser vers for the Army Air Corps repor ted shells being fired from the sea. Anti -aircraft batteries fired into the night sky, although no planes were ever sighted. Before the war, Long Beach had a sizable Japanese -American population, who worked in the fish canneries on Terminal Island and owned small truck (produce) farms in the area. Due to exaggerated fears on the coast and racial prejudice , state officials persuaded the national government to remove Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans for internment in 1942 to inland facilities . Most did not return to the city after their release from the camps . Due to this and other factors , Japanese Americans now make up less than 1% of the population of Long Beach, but the Japanese Community Center and a Japanese Buddhist Church sur vive . The Japanese -American Cultural Center is located over the Gerald Desmond Bridge and the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro. Douglas Aircraft Company 's largest facility was its Long Beach plant, totaling 1,422,350 sq. ft. The first plane rolled out the door on December 23, 1941. The plant produced C -47 Skytrain transpor ts , B-17 Flying For tress bombers , and A-20 Havoc attack bombers simultaneously. Douglas merged with the McDonnell Aircraft Company in 1967 where theDouglas DC-8 and the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 were built. In 1997 McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing, which still makes C-17 Globemaster transpor t planes in Long Beach, although this program is slated to end and the plant may be closed. [24][25] C-47 transpor t planes being built in Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach during World War II [26] In 1970, the Census Bureau repor ted Long Beach's population as 6% Hispanic , 5.4% Black, and 86.2% non Hispanic White .

About Long Beach, California via Wikipedia The nonprofit Aquarium of the Pacific , located in downtown Long Beach, opened to the public in 1998. It has become a major attraction visited by more than 13 million people since its opening. Kajima International was the developer of the Aquarium of the Pacific and architects included the Los Angeles office of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum and Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis of San Francisco.

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