Editing Garden Grove, California (section)

===19th century===
[[Rancho Las Bolsas]] was a land grant under Mexican governance that primarily dealt in cattle ranching in the central Orange County floodplains. The land had originally belonged to the indigenous Tongva and Acjachemem people<ref>{{Cite web |title=Native-Land.ca {{!}} Our home on native land |url=https://native-land.ca/listings/territories/acjachemen-juaneno |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=native-land.ca}}</ref>, but featured displacement under the Spanish colonization and Mexican land grants<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Lewinnek |first=Elaine |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2j6xf5f?turn_away=true&seq=19 |title=A People's Guide to Orange County |last2=Arellano |first2=Gustavo |last3=Vo Dang |first3=Thuy |date=2022 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-29995-5 |edition=1 |volume=4}}</ref>. 

Garden Grove was founded by [[Alonzo Cook]] in 1874. A school district and [[Methodist]] church were organized that year. It remained a small rural crossroads and farming community until the arrival of the Pacific Electric Railroad in 1905. The rail connection helped the town prosper with the influx of tourists, visitors and eventually settlers,<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Garden Grove, From Community to Town |url=https://ggcity.org/history#:~:text=By%20the%20time%20Orange%20County,and%20before%20long%2C%20more%20settlers. |website=ggcity.org |publisher=Garden Grove City |access-date=March 11, 2022}}</ref> and it was noted for its crops of [[Orange (fruit)|oranges]], [[Walnut|walnuts]], [[chili pepper]]s and later [[Strawberry|strawberries]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Garden Grove {{!}} California, United States|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Garden-Grove|access-date=September 1, 2021|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>