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HISTORY

HISTORIC LAGUNA
LAGUNA BEACH'S COLORFUL HISTORY HAS HELPED CULTIVATE THE
CULTURE-RICH COMMUNITY IT IS TODAY.

1873

R

ich with architectural style, art and culture, the
city of Laguna Beach takes seriously the preservation of its coastline, history and unique, original
buildings-some with celebrities as former residents-
and their stories. Looking back to the turn of the 20th
century, the sleepy beach town had become a popular
destination for artists, and a further wave of property
development in the first few decades of the early 1900s
attracted tourists set to build their dream vacation cottages. From an art colony to a hippie mecca to the popular film location it is today, Laguna Beach has a library
of stories tucked into its charming neighborhoods. Here
is a timeline of significant events.

Encouraged by Abraham Lincoln's
Homestead Act of 1862 and
Timber Culture Act of 1873, which
granted up to 160 acres of land to
homesteaders who planted at least
40 acres of trees, settlers in Laguna
Beach began to plant groves of
eucalyptus trees. The first homestead, Thurston Homestead, was
established in Aliso Canyon by
George Thurston at The Ranch at
Laguna Beach.

1876
The brothers William and Lorenzo
Nathan "Nate" Brooks purchased
tracts of land at Diamond Street,
which they subdivided, built
homes on and initiated the small
community of Arch Beach. In his
1921 book, "History of Orange
County, California," Samuel Armor
cited the permanent homestead
of Nate Brooks as the beginning
of the modern day town and
described Brooks as the "Father of
Laguna Beach."

1880
Impersonating Neptune, the Greek
god of the sea, the first unofficial
greeter, Joe Lucas-who lived
in Laguna Beach for 28 years
and died in 1908-arrived from
Portugal and greeted stagecoach
visitors while carrying a trident
fishing spear.

1886

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1886
Hubbard Goff built a large hotel at
Arch Beach which later was moved
and added to Joseph Yoch's
Laguna Beach Hotel built in 1888
on Main Beach. Visitors from local
cities pitched tents on the beaches
for vacation during the warm summers, creating "tent cities."

1918
Attracted to the isolated coastline
and hills, plein-air painters William
Wendt, Frank Cuprien, and Edgar
Payne, among others, settled here

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