This is meant to be a very basic timeline, to give you an idea of what was happening during the lives of your ancestors. Click here for the links to rosters, directories, etc.. that reference Ocean Park.
Click here for the list of cities in Los Angeles County. Click here for the list of Counties in California.
There is a great blog post about Ocean Park history on a wordpress blog called Ocean Park California. It has a great deal of information and resources.
1848 Mexico cedes California to the United States
1849 The Gold Rush begins
1862 The great floods of California
1870s Ocean Park and Santa Monica is being settled
1875 Santa Monica Founded
1876 Southern Pacific Railroad completes a line between San Francisco to Los Angeles
1880 Abbot Kinney decides to turn Santa Monica into a beach resort then focus on Venice of America
1885 Santa Fe Railroad comes to Los Angeles
1886 Santa Monica incoporated
1890s - 1910 Piers, Attractions and Housing were built to draw tourists to the area.
1895 The area is named Ocean Park
Venice was called Ocean Park at the time
1899 Ocean Park Post Office opens
1901 Ocean Park had about 200 cottages, a few stores, a pleasure pier, a casino, race track, and post office.
1904 Ocean Park Developement Company is dissolved, the unincorporated area goes by Ocean Park, although some of the areas that were considered Ocean park lie in Santa Monica.
Kinney wins the famous coin toss and gains the marshlands.
1905 Ocean Park Bath House Opens, and is a huge draw for tourists
1906-1911 There are power struggles over what city owns Venice of America.
1911 Ocean Park's name is changed to Venice
1925 Voters in Venice vote to be annexed to Los Angeles
Useful Resources
Venice Historical Society
Woodlawn Cemetery Santa Monica
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