Orange County, California Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Spanish mission period === [[File:Mission San Juan Capistrano circa 1921.jpg|left|thumb|From 1776 to 1833, there were 4,317 baptisms and 3,153 deaths of native people recorded at [[Mission San Juan Capistrano]] (pictured in 1921).<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647873186 |title=Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico. Volume III, N to S |date=2003 |publisher=Digital Scanning |others=Frederick Webb Hodge |isbn=978-1-58218-755-6 |location=Scituate, MA |pages=445–446 |oclc=647873186 |access-date=December 19, 2022 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823173736/http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647873186 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":04"/>]]After the 1769 expedition of [[Gaspar de Portolà]], a Spanish expedition led by [[Junipero Serra]] named the area Valle de Santa Ana (Valley of [[Saint Anne]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history of Orange County |author=Phil Brigandi |publisher=County of Orange |date=March 9, 2007 |access-date=May 28, 2009 |url=http://www.oc.ca.gov/RECORDER/Archives/forms/history%20of%20orange%20county.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528102945/http://www.oc.ca.gov/recorder/Archives/forms/history%20of%20orange%20county.pdf |archive-date=May 28, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> On November 1, 1776, [[Mission San Juan Capistrano]] became the area's first permanent European settlement. Among those who came with Portolá were [[Rancho Los Nietos|José Manuel Nieto]] and [[José Antonio Yorba]]. Both these men were given land grants—[[Rancho Los Nietos]] and [[Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana]], respectively.<ref name=":1" /> The Nieto heirs were granted land in 1834. The Nieto ranches were known as [[Rancho Los Alamitos]], [[Rancho Las Bolsas]], and [[Rancho Los Coyotes]]. Yorba heirs [[Bernardo Yorba]] and [[José Antonio Yorba|Teodosio Yorba]] were also granted [[Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana]] (Santa Ana Canyon Ranch) and [[Rancho Lomas de Santiago]], respectively. Other ranchos in Orange County were granted by the Mexican government during the Mexican period in [[Alta California]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Clerk-Recorder/Docs/Archives/Spanish_and_Mexican_Ranchos.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726003947/http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Clerk-Recorder/Docs/Archives/Spanish_and_Mexican_Ranchos.pdf |url-status=dead |title=Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Orange County |archive-date=July 26, 2011}}</ref> [[Saint]] [[Junípero Serra]] y Ferrer and the early components of the [[Portolá expedition|Portolá Expedition]] arrived in modern-day [[San Diego]], south of present-day Orange County, in mid-late 1769. During these early [[Spanish missions in California|Mission]] years, however, the early immigrants continued to rely on imports of both [[Mexican wine|Mexican-grown]] and [[Spanish wine|Spanish-grown]] wines; Serra repeatedly complained of the process of repeated, labored import.<ref name="Pinney">{{Cite book |last=Pinney |first=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fmcwfK5G_YkC&q=capistrano |title=A History of Wine in America from the Beginnings to Prohibition: From the Beginnings to Prohibition |date=January 1, 1989 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-06224-5 |language=en |access-date=February 10, 2021 |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307055945/https://books.google.com/books?id=fmcwfK5G_YkC&q=capistrano |url-status=live}}</ref> The first grape crop production was produced in 1782 at [[San Juan Capistrano]], with vines potentially brought through supply ships in 1778.<ref name="Pinney" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page