North Gate of City of Anaheim

Nothing of the gate survives, and the fence it opened was alive. The colony ringed its 1,165 acres with some 40,000 willow poles to keep the ranchos' cattle out, and the poles rooted into a green hedge, with gates across the two main streets at North, South, East and West. This was the north one, on the Los Angeles road. In 1932, for Anaheim's seventy-fifth anniversary, the DAR set a granite boulder from Mount Baldy in the sidewalk. Its bronze names no landmark number and no placer. The state registered the site in 1933, Orange County's first.

What the plaque says

Anaheim Founded 1857 Location of North Gate

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Puvungna — 12 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.
• Domínguez Rancho Adobe — 17 mi
  The first Spanish land grant in California contained the whole harbor, and in 1846 fifty Californio lancers turned back three hundred Marines on it.
• Planes of Fame Air Museum — 19 mi
  On the field where the country smelted its surplus warplanes — and about thirty of the aircraft here still fly.
• The Banning Museum — 20 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.

More markers nearby

• Pioneer House of the Mother Colony — 0.8 mi
• Old Santa Ana — 4.1 mi
• Old Maizeland School (Rivera School) — 4.8 mi
• Orange County's Original Courthouse — 7.0 mi