Garden Grove Historical Society Archive

  • Garden Grove’s Volunteer Fire Department was formed after the Fire District was established in January 1927.  The creation of a “modern” water system with fire hydrants in 1926 made it...

    The first firefighters

    Garden Grove’s Volunteer Fire Department was formed after the Fire District was established in January 1927.  The creation of a “modern” water system with fire hydrants in 1926 made it...

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  • By Jim Tortolano/Garden Grove Journal The communities of Garden Grove, Stanton and Westminster were not yet twinkles in the eyes of their pioneer founders when the rest of the nation...

    History makes camp in GG

    By Jim Tortolano/Garden Grove Journal The communities of Garden Grove, Stanton and Westminster were not yet twinkles in the eyes of their pioneer founders when the rest of the nation...

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  • By Jim Tortolano/Garden Grove Journal Civil War is coming to Garden Grove. No, the area south of Trask Avenue hasn’t seceded from the municipal union, but if it did it...

    Ready…aim…re-enact! Civil War coming to GG

    By Jim Tortolano/Garden Grove Journal Civil War is coming to Garden Grove. No, the area south of Trask Avenue hasn’t seceded from the municipal union, but if it did it...

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  • Garden Grove Union High School fielded a football team its first year in the fall of 1922. Although small in size, the team was large in spirit, and was able...

    Historical Note: Early football

    Garden Grove Union High School fielded a football team its first year in the fall of 1922. Although small in size, the team was large in spirit, and was able...

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  • By Brittany Hanson/ Garden Grove Journal Myths, rumors, legends, lore, tall tales and even taller skepticism are what go into a good ghost story. A little bit of adding, subtracting, embellishing...

    Barely a ghost of a chance

    By Brittany Hanson/ Garden Grove Journal Myths, rumors, legends, lore, tall tales and even taller skepticism are what go into a good ghost story. A little bit of adding, subtracting, embellishing...

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