Fountain Valley’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Fountain Valley. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Indigenous people of the Fountain Valley area are the Tongva. The closest village to present-day site of the city was the village of Pasbenga. The village was part of a series of villages along what the Spanish would refer to as the Santa Ana River.
European settlement of the area began when Manuel Nieto was granted the land for Rancho Los Nietos, later Rancho Las Bolsas, which encompassed over 300,000 acres (1,200 km2), including present-day Fountain Valley. Control of the land was subsequently transferred to Mexico upon independence from Spain, and then to the United States as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Fountain Valley’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fountain Valley’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewHarbor Blvd at Heil Ave, Fountain…, c. 1960: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Fountain Valley, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Harbor Blvd at Heil Ave, Fountain Valley, CA, 1960s (c. 1960) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.