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There are many causes that make people to visit Long Beach. Some may visit for, study or to see an entertainment cultural or sports event but tourism is a major cause of why people go to Long Beach and require short term accommodation. Hotels in Long Beach are often required for tourists who need accommodation in the city. Some may want to the city to see the architecture, the culture, entertainment, the sports of the city. Some may want to see the views of the city. Some may want to explore the area around the city and see the culture and society. Some tourists may want to see the landscapes of the region. Some visitors to the city may want a hotel in the city or near the city or in a specific part of the city.
Long Beach is a city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. Long Beach borders Orange County on its southeast edge.
Long Beach has been the largest city nationwide that is not a county seat.
The Port of Long Beach is one of the world's largest shipping ports. The city also has a large oil industry; oil is found both underground and offshore. Manufacturers include aircraft, automobile parts, electronic and audiovisual equipment, and home furnishings. It is also home to headquarters for corporations such as Epson America, Molina Healthcare, and Scan Health Plan. Long Beach has grown with the development of high-technology and aerospace industries in the area.
Indigenous people have lived in coastal southern California for at least ten thousand years. Over the centuries, several successive cultures inhabited the present-day area of Long Beach. By the time Spanish explorers arrived in the 16th century, the dominant group were the Tongva people. They had at least three major settlements within the present day city boundaries. Tevaaxa'anga was an inland settlement near the Los Angeles River, while Ahwaanga and Povuu'nga were coastal villages. Along with other Tongva villages, they disappeared in the mid 1800s due to missionization, political change, and a drastic drop in population from exposure to European diseases.
The Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos were divided from the larger Rancho Los Nietos, which had been granted by the Spanish Empire's, King Carlos III in 1784 to a Spanish soldier, Manuel Nieto. The boundary between the two ranchos ran through the center of Signal Hill on a southwest to northeast diagonal. A portion of western Long Beach was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro, and was in dispute for years, due to flooding changing the Los Angeles River boundary, between Juan Jose Dominguez and Manuel Nieto's ranchos.
Rancho
Los Cerritos was bought in 1843 by John Temple, a Yankee who had come to California
in 1827. Soon after he built what is now known as the Los Cerritos Ranch House,
an adobe which still stands and is a National Historic Landmark. Temple created
a thriving cattle ranch and prospered, becoming the wealthiest man in Los Angeles
County. Both Temple and his ranch house played important local roles in the Mexican-American
War.
Long Beach pier, 1905
Meanwhile, on an island in the San Pedro Bay, Mormon pioneers made an abortive attempt to establish a colony (as part of Brigham Young's plan to establish a continuous chain of settlements from the Pacific to Salt Lake).
San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of southern California, United States. It is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, which together form the fifth busiest port facility in the world (behind the ports of Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen) and easily the busiest in the Western Hemisphere.
Natural islands in San Pedro Bay include Terminal Island (actually an augmented mudflat), the site of much of Los Angeles' and Long Beach's port facilities, and Mormon Island, the site of an abortive settlement attempt by San Bernardino-based Mormon pioneers in the 1850s. Land reclamation operations by Los Angeles have considerably enlarged Terminal Island, as well as linking Mormon Island to the mainland. The historic Deadman's Island sat at a landmark at the foot of the Bay, but was removed in 1928 as part of the effort to enlarge the harbor.
Four small artificial islands containing oil wells are scattered around the bay near Long Beach. The oil drilling equipment itself is masked by brightly-colored walls in an attempt to improve their appearance from shore. These islands, named Oil Islands Freeman, Grissom, White, and Chaffee, are named for Theodore Freeman, the first United States NASA astronaut to die during flight, and for Virgil I. Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee, who were killed by a fire during the Apollo One mission.
Rancho
Los Alamitos takes its name from a Spanish land grant in southern California.
It is also sometimes referred to as Bixby Ranch, after its last private owners.
The early 1800s adobe ranch house, still stands today, housing a museum which
presents the history of the area
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