Editing Buena Park, California (section)

==History==

=== Indigenous ===
The area of Buena Park was the site of the [[Tongva]] village known as [[Juyubit, California|Juyubit]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Akins |first=Damon B. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1176314767 |title=We are the land : a history of Native California |date=2021 |others=William J., Jr. Bauer |isbn=978-0-520-28049-6 |location=Oakland, California |pages=263 |oclc=1176314767}}</ref> The village was located alongside [[Coyote Creek (San Gabriel River tributary)|Coyote Creek]] at the foot of the [[West Coyote Hills]]. It was consistently recorded as one of the largest villages in [[Tovaangar]].<ref name=":0" /> Being established alongside creeks in a valley, the village prospered. [[Oak trees]] provided [[acorn]]s, while native grasses and [[Salvia|sage bushes]] regularly produced seeds. Rabbit and [[mule deer]] were common sources of meat. Juyubit was a center for trade through a series of trails with coastal and mountain villages.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last1=Koerper |first1=Henry |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745176510 |title=Catalysts to complexity : late Holocene societies of the California coast |last2=Mason |first2=Roger |last3=Peterson |first3=Mark |date=2002 |publisher=Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA |others=Jon Erlandson, Terry L. Jones, Jeanne E. Arnold, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA |isbn=978-1-938770-67-8 |location=Los Angeles |pages=64–66, 79 |oclc=745176510 |access-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-date=January 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111080309/https://www.worldcat.org/title/745176510 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Martínez |first=Roberta H. |author-link=Roberta H. Martinez|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/402526696 |title=Latinos in Pasadena |date=2009 |publisher=Arcadia |isbn=978-0-7385-6955-0 |location=Charleston, SC |page=10 |oclc=402526696}}</ref>

=== Spanish era ===
[[File:San Gabriel Mission circa 1832.jpg|left|thumb|Many villagers from [[Juyubit, California|Juyubit]], which was located a present-day Buena Park,<ref name=":0" /> were brought to [[Mission San Gabriel Arcángel|Mission San Gabriel]] in the Spanish era (pictured).<ref name=":2">{{cite web |last1=Heizer |first1=Robert E. |title=The Indians of Los Angeles County |url=https://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/calbk/007.pdf |access-date=January 16, 2021 |publisher=Southwest Museum |archive-date=December 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212161351/https://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/calbk/007.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
The Spanish established the nearby Mission San Gabriel in 1771. Hundreds of villagers from Juyubit were brought to the mission for [[conversion to Christianity]] and to work as laborers on the mission's grounds.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=Relocations and Rebellions: Tracing San Gabriel Mission's Migrant History And Its Effects On Local Communities |url=https://research.pomona.edu/lahp/files/2017/12/hist31_f2017-group_6.pdf |access-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref> Many of the villagers died quickly, with the high [[Spanish missions in California#Death rate at the missions|death rate at the mission]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Guinn |first=James Miller |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xu81AQAAMAAJ |title=History of the State of California and Biographical Record to Oakland and Environs: Also Containing Biographies of Well-known Citizens of the Past and Present |date=1907 |publisher=Historic Record Company |pages=56–66 |language=en |type=Digitized eBook |access-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-date=December 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223065902/https://books.google.com/books?id=Xu81AQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> and three of every four newborns dying before reaching the age of two.<ref name=":17">{{Cite journal |last=Singleton |first=Heather Valdez |date=2004 |title=Surviving Urbanization: The Gabrieleno, 1850–1928 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1409498 |journal=Wíčazo Ša Review |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=49–59 |doi=10.1353/wic.2004.0026 |jstor=1409498  |s2cid=161847670}}</ref>

Dissatisfaction with the poor conditions at the missions led to a revolt in 1785–1786 led by [[Toypurina]], a [[Medicine man|medicine woman]]. Villagers from Juyubit were involved in the revolt, which did not succeed in ousting the Spanish.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54669648 |title=Reassessing revitalization movements : perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands |date=2004 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |others=Michael Eugene Harkin, American Anthropological Association. Meeting |isbn=0-585-49966-7 |location=Lincoln |page=7 |oclc=54669648}}</ref> A few years after the revolt, a woman from Juyubit, Eulalia María, was baptized at the age of six. She became a [[Godmothers|godmother]] to as an adult before her death in 1818.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pérez |first=Erika |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1020173046 |title=Colonial intimacies : interethnic kinship, sexuality, and marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885 |date=2018 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-6083-2 |location=Norman |pages=86–88 |oclc=1020173046}}</ref>

Spanish settlers began to establish larger settlements on [[ranchos of California|rancho]]s by land grants made by the King of Spain. [[Manuel Nieto (soldier)|Manuel Nieto]] of the [[Portolà expedition]]s received a grant in 1783, which was divided by his heirs into five separate ranchos in 1834. One of them, {{convert|46806|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[Rancho Los Coyotes]], included the current site of the City of Buena Park. The rancho's adobe headquarters lay on what is now Los Coyotes Country Club's golf course.

The area was transferred from Spanish authority to Mexican rule in 1822 and ceded to the United States in 1848 at the end of the [[Mexican–American War]]. California was granted statehood in 1850.

=== American era ===
[[File:First Congregational Church, 633 Beach Blvd, Buena Park, 1920s (48724403722).jpg|thumb|left|Buena Park in the 1920s.]]Americanization further expanded in the area after completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 and its connection to Los Angeles in 1875. By then, [[Abel Stearns]] had acquired Rancho Los Coyotes in consideration for loans made to Pio and [[Andrés Pico]]. In 1885, James A. Whitaker, a wholesale grocer from [[Chicago]], purchased {{convert|690|acre|km2}} of this land from Stearns. In 1887, Whitaker founded the City of Buena Park in conjunction with the railway development of what we now know as Orange County.

The exact derivation of the name Buena Park is uncertain. One theory is that Whitaker used the name of a Chicago suburb: [[Buena Park, Chicago, Illinois]], although the community in Illinois was also named in 1887. Another theory relates to the artesian well and its park-like grounds once located at the current intersection of what are now Artesia and [[California State Route 39|Beach]] Boulevards. Local settlers referred to the area as "Plaza Buena" which means "good park" in Spanish.

The city was [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] on January 27, 1953.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usacitiesonline.com/cacountybuenapark.htm |title=Profile and Resource Guide. Buena Park, California Facts and Information |publisher=Usacitiesonline.com |access-date=June 1, 2020 |archive-date=January 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117220851/http://www.usacitiesonline.com/cacountybuenapark.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> An agricultural center when founded (particularly dairy, wine and citrus products), Buena Park is now primarily a residential suburb and commercial hub.

The [[Murder of Stuart Tay]] occurred in 1992.

In 2009, the body of swimsuit model and reality TV star [[Jasmine Fiore]] was found stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in an apartment building dumpster near the 7400 block of Franklin Street in northern Buena Park by a resident searching for recyclables.

[[The Source OC]] retail experience opened in 2017. This place is located north of [[Knott's Berry Farm]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Detailed Look at The Source OC in Buena Park |date=March 7, 2017 |url=http://archives.developingoc.com/2017/03/a-detailed-look-at-source-oc-in-buena.html |access-date=September 30, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=December 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204025024/https://archives.developingoc.com/2017/03/a-detailed-look-at-source-oc-in-buena.html |url-status=live }}</ref>