East-West Streets were numbered from 50th Place (Bayview) to 57th (5th Avenue) with a few streets being lettered. An extension of the street numbers on Balboa Island, they went from 27th (Avocado) to 43rd (Poppy) as Hazel was added later. The first subdivision of the land was filed on September 4, 1904, representing the official start of Corona del Mar.ĭevelopment got underway as Electric Way (now Bayside), Pier Avenue (Marguerite), and Ocean Blvd were graded and oiled and the rest of the North-South streets were numbered. The lay out of the Village was pretty similar to how it is today with 2,300 parcels of land made up of 30 x 120 foot lots. Forgy of Santa Ana were chosen as real estate agents and the land was surveyed by Colonel S.H. Prices started at $100 per lot with Beach lots selling for up to $750. In July 1904, Hart took out an ad in Santa Ana’s Daily Evening Blade offering lots for sale and promising a 600 foot ocean pier, 300 foot pier into the Bay, running water, and an 80 foot boulevard on Ocean and Bay Streets. Hart named the development Corona del Mar, meaning Crown of the Sea. The land included everything from Jamboree to Hazel and from East Coast Highway & 5th to the Ocean. Hart ended up paying $150 an acre, giving Irvine $10K in the first 10 days after the sale, and then three annual payments of $32K each in 1905, 1906, and 1907. As the Pacific was laying track south through the beach towns, Hart approached Irvine about selling him land. He had partnered with Henry Huntington, whose uncle had owned the Southern Pacific before passing away, and used some of the Huntington fortune to purchase the Pacific Electric Railway in LA. He had made money building and running saw mills before eventually getting into real estate and moving to Los Angeles in 1900. Hart 700 acres of what is now Corona del Mar.īorn in 1859 in New Hampshire, Hart envisioned a chain of beach towns from Newport to San Juan Capistrano to attract tourists and residents. Seeing the coastal property as having little value and in need of cash, in 1904 Irvine agreed to sell George E. At the turn of the century, the Irvine Ranch was primarily a farm and the region had suffered through several years of drought conditions, receiving less than half the rain it had been getting a decade earlier. When James passed away in 1886, the Irvine Ranch went into a trust for James II to receive on his 25th birthday in 1893. All Rights Reserved.The land that is today Corona del Mar was originally a part of Spanish land grants and eventually ended up being sold to James Irvine as part of 108,000 acres he bought in 1875 for $150,000. This page has been served 1328 times since. This peak was submitted to the database by Jim Retemeyer. Land: Corona del Mar State Beach (Highest Point)
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database: Peak 914 (E) RangesĬontinent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Central and Southern California Ranges Range4: Peninsular Southern California Ranges Range5: Santa Ana Mountains
Isolation distance is based on NHN and is slightly overstated. Isolation Page (Detailed isolation information) Distance: 3.02 mi/4.85 km Peakfinder Panorama GeoHack Links CalTopo MyTopo Bing Maps Google Maps Open Street Map
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