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Many tourists like to go on vacation to Huntington Beach to see the beach and the seaside and the coast. Some might like to see the beaches, the coast, the tourist regions and the culture and society of the city. Some may want to use use the city as a base to explore the region itself. Some may want to see the tourist attractions including the pier. Some tourists may like to use Huntington Beach CA hotels for accommodation.
Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in southern California, United States. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by Seal Beach on the north, by Costa Mesa on the south, by Westminster on the northeast, and by Fountain Valley on the east.
It is known for its long 8.5 miles beach, mild climate, and excellent surfing. The waves are a unique natural effect caused by edge-diffraction of ocean swells by the island of Catalina, and waves from distant hurricanes. Because of the curve of the coastline at Huntington Beach, the local beach actually faces southwest. In summer, the southwest-facing beach often has very strong surf generally referred to as a south swell. South swells can be generated from either (winter) storms originating in the southern Pacific Ocean off New Zealand or from hurricanes off the Mexican coast or a combination of both.
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he area was originally occupied by the
Tongva people. European settlement can be traced to a Spanish soldier, Manuel
Nieto, who in 1784 received a Spanish land grant of 300,000 acres, Rancho Los
Nietos, as a reward for his military service and to encourage settlement in Alta
California. Nieto's western area was reduced in 1790 because of a dispute with
the Mission San Gabriel, but he retained thousands of acres stretching from the
hills north of Whittier, Fullerton and Brea, south to the Pacific Ocean, and from
today's Los Angeles River on the west, to the Santa Ana River on the east.
The main thoroughfare of Huntington Beach, Beach Boulevard, was originally a cattle route for the main industry of the Rancho. Since its time as a parcel of the enormous Spanish land grant, Huntington Beach has undergone many incarnations. One time it was know as Gospel Swamp for the revival meetings that were held in the marshland where the community college Golden West College can currently be found. Later it became known as Pacific City as it developed into a tourist destination. In order to secure access to the Red Car lines that used to criss-cross Los Angeles and ended in Long Beach, Pacific City ceded enormous power to railroad magnate Henry Huntington, and thus became a city whose name has been written into corporate sponsorship, and like much of the history of Southern California, boosterism.
Huntington Beach incorporated in 1909 under its first mayor, Ed Manning. Its original developer was the Huntington Beach Company, a real estate development firm owned by Henry Huntington, a railroad magnate after whom the city is named. The Huntington Beach Company is still a major land owner in the city, and still owns most of the local mineral rights.
An interesting hiccup in the settlement of the district occurred when an encyclopedia company gave away free parcels of land, with the purchase of a whole set, in the Huntington Beach area that it had acquired cheaply. The lucky buyers got more than they had bargained for when oil was discovered in the area, and enormous development of the oil reserves followed. Though many of the old wells are empty, and the price of land for housing has pushed many of the rigs off the landscape, oil pumps can still be found to dot the city.
The city's first high school, Huntington Beach High School was built in 1906. The school's team, the Oilers, are named after the city's original natural resource.
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The Huntington Beach Pier is a municipal pier located in Huntington Beach,
California. At 1,850 feet in length, it is one of the longest public piers on
the West Coast. The pier is frequented by sport fishermen as well as surfing spectators.
The downtown district includes an active art center, a colorful shopping district, and the International Surfing Museum. This district was also once the home of the famous restaurant and music club The Golden Bear. In the late 1960s and 1970s it hosted many famous bands and acts.
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