Buena Park

by Dean O. Dixon

Once a part of Rancho Los Coyotes, Buena Park is today home to 80,000 people within its 10 square miles. In 1887, a Chicago grocer, who purchased land for a cattle ranch, was persuaded by the Santa Fe Railroad to found a town instead. But it was the Southern Pacific Railroad that made Buena Park an agricultural railhead. The Lily Creamery was built in 1889, marking the town's first industry. Today Buena Park, a city of residential, commercial, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738529443
• ISBN13: 9780738529448
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"