From barley fields to oil town
Subtitle: a tour of Huntington Beach, 1901-1922
By: by Claudine Burnett.
Publisher: Burnett Historical Tours; Distributed by DW Artworks
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Huntington Beach, Calif; Long Beach, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Historic buildings -- California -- Huntington Beach -- Guidebooks.; Huntington Beach (Calif.) -- Tours.
Other titles: Tour of Huntington Beach, 1901-1922
First sentence: In 1901 the now thriving city of Huntington Beach was nothing more than a barren waste of sand dunes and farming fields.  It was Col. S.H. Findlay who saw the possibilities of the location as a resort and, in 1901, he made a survey for a townsite, subdivided 40 acres of land and called it Pacific City. With fellow promoter W.T. Newland they purchased some vacant houses at Newport Beach and hauled them a distance of more than twelve miles.  Thirty six mules were used for two entire days to drag the buildings along the roads over mesas to the new town. these were the first stuctures in pacific City, the area now known as downtown Huntington Beach.
Description: Besides a short history of the city, a walking tour of 1922 downtown Huntington Beach, California is included.
Notes: Distributor's name and address from label on t.p. verso.