Garden Grove & Costa Mesa are in this West Coast county formally organized in 1889
Following Mexico's liberation from 
Spanish rule ... Orange County was formally organized as a political entity 
separate from the... [DOC] [TLE] The Story of Cerritos Chapter 3 [PAR] It was west of the San Gabriel River (remember, it flowed where the Los Angeles 
... Buena Park, Garden Grove, and many smaller cities including Cerritos are ... 
seen at Old Town in San Diego and nearer at the Sepulveda adobe in Costa 
Mesa.