Orange County Almanac
With its historic downtown, Orange is one of the county’s oldest towns.
An 1888 real estate advertisement for Orange touted the city as a “paradise for homes” with “cheap land and rich soil.”
The ad shows a map of late 19th-Century Southern California drawn onto a large orange. The document notes that the city has an “elegant hotel” and “TWO railroads,” as well as a park, a public library and five churches. It goes on to say that the city has “the most water and the finest climate.”
The ad was printed just before what is today Orange County broke away from Los Angeles County. So the ad ends by stating: “Be sure to visit Orange, Los Angeles County, Cal.”
Today
A free financial seminar for first-time home buyers will be offered from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Tustin office of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Orange County.
The second half of the seminar will take place Thursday.
The service’s Tustin office is at 17782 E. 17th St., Suite 108.
Seminar reservations are available by calling (714) 544-8880, Ext. 122.
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