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One fine day in 1869, William H. Spurgeon bought 70 acres of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, abbreviated the name and plotted out a townsite. You could hardly blame him—land was eight bucks an acre, or so the story goes. He had to practically give the lots away until he persuaded the Los Angeles-Santiago Stagecoach line to stop there. The arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad triggered a real estate boom in 1887; two years later, Orange County split off from L.A. and named Santa Ana the county seat—just about the time the boom went bust. Today the city is the ninth largest in the state.
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