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    History of Name Santiago Elementary School was named for 

    Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana

    Rancho Santiago

    RANCHO SANTIAGO DE SANTA ANA 

     

         A Spanish land grant that lay entirely in what is now Orange County, the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, became the location of the city of Santa Ana. The rancho was the home of two of the oldest families in California, the Yorbas and the Peraltas. Consisting of 62,516 acres, the rancho extended along the east bank of the Santa Ana River from the mountains to the sea. Settled early enough to provide homes for the third and fourth generations of the Yorbas and the Peraltas, it was eventually the location of at least 33 historic adobes. C. E. Roberts (W.P.A. Adobe project, 1936) considered it to be one of the very best examples of the California rancho.
          The Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana stretched for more than 25 miles, from the ocean to the mountains. Its western boundary followed the southeast bank of the Santa Ana River. The property was bow-shaped, being two and a half miles wide at the ocean end and six and a half miles wide in the middle. The land comes to a rounded point on the north end. Located midway along the southern border of the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, Red Hill is the point where three famous ranchos come together. From the top of Red Hill you can see lands that once belonged to the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, the Rancho San Joaquin, and the Rancho Lomas De Santiago.
     From Santa Ana History-
    Learn More- http://www.santaanahistory.com/articles/ranchos.html
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    DATE BUILD / OCCUPIED 1954 NEW BUILDING 2010
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       AWARDED 1998   -     AWARDED 2008
     
     
                



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