 | Attractions | | Hotels | | Map | | Anaheim; good to know | |
 | | | |  |
It is known for its theme parks, sports teams, and convention center. Some of the best attractions to visit are Disneyland Park, Knott's Berry Farm, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor - Los Angeles, Six Flags Magic Mountain - Los Angeles, Santa Ana Zoo, and Medieval ... more »
Save time & money with Hotels
Adventure City Anaheim Angels Anaheim Ducks Disneyland© Park Disney's California Adventure™ Park Downtown Disney® District Fashion Island Huntington Beach Knott's Berry Farm Los Alamitos Race Course Medieval Times Newport Beach Santa Ana Zoo Six Flags Hurricane Harbor - Los Angeles Six Flags Magic Mountain - Los Angeles Soak City U.S.A. Orange County The Block at Orange Universal Studios® Hollywood
View all hotels in Anaheim...
Hotels 
Attractions 
Airports It is known for its theme parks, sports teams, and convention center. Some of the best attractions to visit are Disneyland© Park, Knott's Berry Farm, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor - Los Angeles, Six Flags Magic Mountain - Los Angeles, Santa Ana Zoo, and Medieval Times.
Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, located 28 miles southeast of Los Angeles. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 328,014, making it the tenth-largest city in California and 55th-largest in the United States. Anaheim is the second largest city in Orange County.
Founded by fifty German families in 1857 and incorporated on February 10, 1870, Anaheim developed into an industrial center, producing electronics, aircraft parts, and canned fruit. It is the site of the Disneyland Resort, a world-famous grouping of theme parks and hotels which opened in 1955, Angel Stadium, the Arrowhead Pond, and Anaheim Convention Center, the largest convention center on the American West Coast. Its name is a blend of "Ana", after the nearby Santa Ana River, and "heim", a common Upper German place name compound originally meaning "home".
In the western portion of the city (not including Anaheim Hills), the major surface streets run east to west, starting with the northernmost, are La Palma Avenue, Lincoln Avenue, Ball Road, and Katella Avenue. The major surface streets running north-south, starting with the westernmost, are Beach Boulevard (CA-39), Magnolia Avenue, Brookhurst Street, Euclid Street, Harbor Boulevard, Anaheim Boulevard, and State College Boulevard.
The freeways that pass through Anaheim are the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5), the Orange Freeway (CA-57), the Riverside Freeway (CA-91). The Costa Mesa Freeway (CA-55), and the Eastern Transportation Corridor (CA-241) also have short stretches within the city limits.
Anaheim is served by rail by two major railroads, the Union Pacific Railroad and the BNSF Railway. In addition, Anaheim sees Amtrak California and Metrolink services and hosts a major regional train station in the Angel Stadium parking lot.
Anaheim was founded in 1857 by grape farmers and wine makers from Franconia in Bavaria. The colony was situated on 1,165 acres. Settlers voted to call the community Annaheim, the "anna" referring to the Santa Ana River and "heim" meaning home in German. The name later was changed slightly, to Anaheim. To the spanish speaking neighbors, the settlement was known as Campo Alemán (Spanish for German Camp). The grape industry was destroyed in the 1880's by an insect pest. Other crops - walnuts, lemons, and of course oranges soon filled the void.
Ku Klux Clan
In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan, at the height of its influence and popularity, decided to make Anaheim a model Klan city. In 1924, the Klan secretly managed to get four of its members elected to the five-member Board of Trustees. Nine of the ten members of the police force were also Klansmen. The four Klan trustees served for nearly a year, until they were publicly exposed, and voted out in a recall election in which 95% of the population participated.
The Mouse Arrives ... and Spends Money
The Disneyland theme park was constructed in Anaheim from July 16, 1954 to July 17, 1955 and has since become Anaheim's largest tourist attraction. The location was formerly 160 acres of orange and walnut trees, some of which remain inside Disneyland. In 2001, Disney's California Adventure Park was opened to the public, being the most expansive project in the theme park's history.
In the late 1900s, Anaheim grew rapidly in population. Today, Anaheim has a diverse racial and ethnic composition.
Going on a trip? Why not browse some of the luggage at eBags.com (external source)
Your vacation. A time to lose yourself. And sometimes your luggage, too. Need Travel Insurance? Why not try Travel Guard (external source)
Lonely Planet Maps (external source)
Lonely Planet Language Guides (external source)
Temperature - Yearly Average
Distances are calculated as the crow flies, and are provided as an aid in planning only.
* This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Source wikipedia.
