Editing Fountain Valley, California (section)

== History ==
[[File:Six horse team hauling hay at Talbert (now Fountain Valley).jpg|thumb|right|Hauling hay in Talbert]]
[[File:Harbor Blvd at Heil Ave, Fountain Valley, CA, 1960s.jpg|thumb|right|Harbor Blvd at Heil Ave, 1960s]]
[[File:Fountain Valley, California.jpg|thumb|Fountain Valley welcome sign along Warner Avenue]]

=== Indigenous ===
The Indigenous people of the Fountain Valley area are the [[Tongva]]. The closest village to present-day site of the city was the village of [[Pajbenga|Pasbenga]]. The village was part of a series of villages along what the Spanish would refer to as the [[Santa Ana River]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last1=Greene |first1=Sean |last2=Curwen |first2=Thomas |title=Mapping the Tongva villages of L.A.'s past |url=https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-tongva-map/ |access-date=December 8, 2022 |website=www.latimes.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745176510 |title=Catalysts to complexity : late Holocene societies of the California coast |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 |oclc=745176510}}</ref>

=== Spanish ===
European settlement of the area began when [[Manuel Nieto (soldier)|Manuel Nieto]] was granted the land for [[Rancho Los Nietos]], later [[Rancho Las Bolsas]], which encompassed over {{convert|300000|acre|km2}}, including present-day Fountain Valley. Control of the land was subsequently transferred to [[Mexico]] upon independence from [[Spain]], and then to the [[United States]] as part of the [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]].

===Talbert===
'''Talbert''' was a settlement at what is now the intersection of Talbert and Bushard. It was also known as Gospel Swamp by residents.

Thomas B. Talbert was born outside [[Monticello, Illinois|Monticello]] in [[Piatt County, Illinois]], in 1878. When Talbert was 13, his family moved to [[Long Beach, California]]. Around 1896, the family purchased more than {{convert|300|acre|ha}} of peat and swampland in what is now Fountain Valley. The Talberts opened a general store and thus the settlement of Talbert was established.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Person |first1=Jerry |title=A LOOK BACK:Telling the Talbert story |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-xpm-2007-01-18-hbi-lookback18-story.html |access-date=July 23, 2020 |publisher=Daily Pilot |date=January 18, 2007}}</ref>

The area was full of farms growing beets that were processed at some of the nation's largest plants at Huntington Beach (Holly Sugar Plant) and at Delhi, now part of southwestern Santa Ana. The post office was established in 1899, with Thomas B. Talbert serving as the first postmaster.<ref>{{cite news |title=New California Postoffices. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55939146/new-california-postoffices/ |access-date=July 23, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=December 3, 1899}}</ref>

The All-Saints Church is the only structure remaining from that era. The [[Santa Ana–Huntington Beach Line]] of the [[Pacific Electric Railway]] passed through Talbert and opened on July 5, 1909.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nation's Natal Day and Opening of Electric Line Jointly Celebrated |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55938685/nations-natal-day-and-opening-of/ |access-date=July 23, 2020 |publisher=Santa Ana Register}}</ref>

===Incorporation===
The city was incorporated in 1957. The name of Fountain Valley refers to the very high [[water table]] in the area at the time the name was chosen, and the many corresponding [[Artesian aquifer|artesian wells]] in the area. Early settlers constructed drainage canals to make the land usable for agriculture, which remained the dominant use of land until the 1960s, when construction of large housing tracts accelerated.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the City of Fountain Valley|url=http://www.fountainvalley.org/visitors/facts/history.html|work=Official website|access-date=December 29, 2007|archive-date=December 25, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225110246/http://www.fountainvalley.org/visitors/facts/history.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The first mayor of Fountain Valley was [[James Kanno]], who with this appointment became one of the first Japanese-American mayors of a mainland United States city.<ref name=urashima>{{cite book|last1=Urashima|first1=Mary F. Adams|title=Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach|date=2014|publisher=The History Press|location=Charleston, South Carolina|isbn=978-1-62619-311-6|page=160}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=James Kanno, one of America's first Japanese American mayors and a founder of Fountain Valley, dies at 91|newspaper=[[LA Times]]|first=Anh|last=Do|date=July 18, 2017|access-date= July 18, 2017|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-james-kanno-20170718-story.html}}</ref>

After the [[Fall of Saigon]] in 1975, there was a large influx of [[Vietnamese American|Vietnamese]] [[Vietnamese boat people|refugees]] settling in Fountain Valley, especially in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, forming a large percentage of [[Asian Americans]] in the city.