ORANGE COUNTY ALMANAC : Border Goes With the Flow
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Only 14,000 people lived in what today is called Orange County when it separated from Los Angeles County.
Under legislation sponsored by Assemblyman E.E. Edwards, part of Orange County’s border would follow Coyote Creek.
Voters approved that plan in 1889, giving the county its saw-toothed northwestern boundary near La Palma.
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