Buena Park

by Dean O. Dixon

Overview

Once a part of Rancho Los Coyotes, Buena Park is today home to 80,000 people within its 10 square miles. In 1887, a Chicago grocer, who purchased land for a cattle ranch, was persuaded by the Santa Fe Railroad to found a town instead. But it was the Southern Pacific Railroad that made Buena Park an agricultural railhead. The Lily Creamery was built in 1889, marking the town's first industry. Today Buena Park, a city of residential, commercial, and industrial development, is famous for tourist attractions such as Medieval Times, Movieland Wax Museum, and Knott's Berry Farm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738529448
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/10/2004
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,118,779
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Author Dean O. Dixon has been writing about local history since 1974 when his family moved to Buena Park. This is his fourth book. Dixon is a past president of the Buena Park Historical Society and many of the nearly 200 images in this book come from the historical society's archives.