Anaheim Hills Movers

Anaheim, The Mother Colony, Southern California’s first planned community, had its humble beginning in 1857 with 1165 acres apportioned for a city lot, housing, and vineyards. As the year 2000 approaches, the city of Anaheim has grown to almost 50 square miles, covering most of the North Orange County Santa Ana River flood plain and a large portion of the Santa Ana Canyon’s southeastern slope, now known as Anaheim Hills.

After the opening of Disneyland in July 1955, Anaheim’s cheap land, low housing costs, and low-interest rates fueled a boom unlike any seen in Southern California before, raising the population from 14,556 in 1950 to over 104,000 by 1960. 

The area now known as Anaheim Hills was once part of the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana granted to Jose Antonio Yorba and his nephew Juan Pablo Peralta in July 1810. The Yorba family used much of this land in the Santa Ana Canyon area to raise cattle, sheep, oxen, mules, and a large orchard and vineyard. Conformation of the Yorba and Peralta grants came in June 1884 by patent decree of the United States District Court. The original Yorba lands were partitioned in 1868 to Andrew Glassell and A.B. Chapman, and by 1885 the Jotham Bixby family had also acquired interests in the southeastern side of the Santa Ana Canyon.

A joint venture created by Texaco Ventures, Inc., and Anaheim Hills, Inc., deeded the property for residential development purposes by August 1971. The general plan for developing Anaheim Hills called for constructing some of the finest homes in Orange County.