The city is located southwest and northeast of the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405), which diagonally bisects the city, and is surrounded by Huntington Beach on the south and west, Westminster and Garden Grove on the north, Santa Ana on the northeast, and Costa Mesa on the southeast. Īfter the Fall of Saigon in 1975, there was a large influx of Vietnamese refugees settling in Fountain Valley, especially in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, forming a large percentage of Asian Americans in the city. The first mayor of Fountain Valley was James Kanno, who with this appointment became one of the first Japanese-American mayors of a mainland United States city. Early settlers constructed drainage canals to make the land usable for agriculture, which remained the dominant use of land until the 1960s, when construction of large housing tracts accelerated. The name of Fountain Valley refers to the very high water table in the area at the time the name was chosen, and the many corresponding artesian wells in the area. The Santa Ana-Huntington Beach line of the Pacific Electric Railway passed through Talbert and opened on July 5, 1909. The All-Saints Church is the only structure remaining from that era. The post office was established in 1899, with Thomas B. The area was full of farms growing beets that were processed at some of the nation's largest plants at Huntington Beach (Holly Sugar Plant) and at Delhi, now part of southwestern Santa Ana. The Talberts opened a general store and thus the settlement of Talbert was established. Around 1896, the family purchased more than 300 acres (120 ha) of peat and swampland in what is now Fountain Valley. When Talbert was 13, his family moved to Long Beach, California. Talbert was born outside Montecello in Piatt County, Illinois, in 1878. It was also known as Gospel Swamp by residents. Talbert was a settlement at what is now the intersection of Talbert and Bushard. Control of the land was subsequently transferred to Mexico upon independence from Spain, and then to the United States as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Spanish Įuropean settlement of the area began when Manuel Nieto was granted the land for Rancho Los Nietos, later Rancho Las Bolsas, which encompassed over 300,000 acres (1,200 km 2), including present-day Fountain Valley. The village was part of a series of villages along what the Spanish would refer to as the Santa Ana River. The closest village to present-day site of the city was the village of Pasbenga. The Indigenous people of the Fountain Valley area are the Tongva. Harbor Blvd at Heil Ave, 1960s Indigenous
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