Anaheim Landing

Anaheim's German grape colony sat twelve miles inland across soft soil, so it made a port where Anaheim Creek met the sea. Lighters carried wine out and lumber in over a shallow, dangerous entrance, and for a few years the landing came close to rivaling San Pedro. The railroad reached Anaheim in 1875 and the wagons stopped. A summer beach colony took the shore, up to four hundred people. In 1944 the Navy bought the bay for an ammunition depot, with two hundred homes to be razed. The bronze now stands outside the weapons station's fence.

What the plaque says

Anaheim Landing Soon after the founding of the Mother Colony at Anaheim in 1857, Anaheim Landing was established as a port of entry for the Santa Ana Valley by the Anaheim Landing Co. Despite treacherous entrance conditions, which caused several disasters, regular coastwise trade was carried on for about fifteen years. Historical Landmark No. 219 California State Park Commission

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Puvungna — 3.6 mi
  The Acjachemen and Tongva place of creation: twenty-two acres of open ground on a university campus, still not in the hands of its people.
• Drum Barracks — 9.7 mi
  The Union Army built its Southern California headquarters in a county that had voted against Lincoln two to one, and stabled the Army camels here.
• Terminal Island and Furusato — 9.8 mi
  Three thousand Japanese Americans built a village here they called Furusato, and in February 1942 were given forty-eight hours to leave it.
• The Banning Museum — 9.9 mi
  The man who made a harbor out of an open bay: freight, dredging, the first railroad in Southern California, and a cupola for watching ships.

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