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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K0T_birthplace-of-richard-milhous-nixon_Yorba-Linda-CA.html
President of the United States of America. Inaugurated January 20, 1969. Inaugurated for second term January 20, 1972. We are proud of our native son, a man who has spared nothing of himself to help build a great nation.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14FR_irrigation-in-orange-county_Yorba-Linda-CA.html
Water from the Santa Ana River was largely responsible for the transformation of this arid valley into productive agricultural land. Irrigation companies in Orange County were in operation as early as the 1860s. The two largest were the Santa Ana …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXZ9_richard-nixon-birthplace_Yorba-Linda-CA.html
In 1912 Frank and Hannah Nixon built this modest farmhouse on their small citrus ranch. Here Richard Nixon was born, January 9, 1913, and spent his first nine years. He served his country as Congressman, U.S. Senator, Vice President, and 37th Pres…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXZ4_olinda_Yorba-Linda-CA.html
The course of oil production was changed in 1899 when the Olinda area became the first site in California to use the technique of drilling with the hole full of water. Having been developed as a source of fuel oil for for the Santa Fe Railroad, Ol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXYB_site-of-don-bernardo-yorba-hacienda_Yorba-Linda-CA.html
On this land, portion of Santa Ana grant awarded by King of Spain 1810 to Jose Antonio Yorba, and additional grants to his son by Governor Jose Figueroa 1834, was created Hacienda of Don Bernardo Yorba. Greatest ranchero of golden age, Bernardo Yo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXRG_yorba-cemetery_Yorba-Linda-CA.html
In 1858, Don Bernardo Yorba, son of one of the first land grantees in Southern California and major landowner in his own right, set aside this land as a cemetery. For almost a century, members of many early California families were buried here.
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