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Facts & History. Take a step back in time to experience Long Beach when it was an 1800s ranching community and see how the railroad and port established the city as a booming hub of industry and culture. Long Beach History. The history of the land we know today as Long Beach dates back to the 1500s, when Native Americans occupied the area.
- Long Beach Historical Timeline
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- Long Beach Historical Timeline
Apr 21, 2024 · Long Beach, California. Long Beach, city, port, Los Angeles county, California, U.S. Long Beach lies on San Pedro Bay, 22 miles (35 km) south of Los Angeles, and surrounds the independent city of Signal Hill. The area was originally a Native American trading camp. In 1542 Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo anchored off the coast.
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Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.It is the 43rd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California, the second most populous city in Los Angeles County, and the largest city in California that is not a county seat city.
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The history of the land we know today as Long Beach dates back to the 1500s, when Native Americans occupied the area. It was famously coined as the “Bay of the Smokes” by Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, who observed the native peoples’ ancient communication method of sending smoke signals at the hilltop we now call Signal Hill.
It is thought that this California area was once inhabited by the Shoshoni Indians. In 1784, the first white settler, Manuel Nieto, made his way along the California coast after receiving a land grant. He was the first white man who was recorded to have inhabited the land of Long Beach. The next group of settlers came to the area 100 years later.
