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Lake Forest incorporated as a city on December 20, 1991. Prior to incorporation, the community had been known as El Toro. [6] Following a vote in 2000, Lake Forest expanded its city limits to include the master-planned developments of Foothill Ranch and Portola Hills. This expansion brought new homes and commercial centers to the northeastern ...
Feb 21, 2019 · Way back, Lake Forest was known as El Toro. Like most Orange County cities, it was an agricultural area before it became the city that it is today. It all started when Don Jose Serrano settled in an eleven thousand-hectare land in 1874 granted by the Mexican Land Grant.
Cañada de los Alisos, also called El Toro, was granted to José Serrano in 1842 by Governor Alvarado. Senor Serrano and his relatives erected a number of adobes on the grant, one of which still serves as private living quarters.
During Mr. Daguerre’s lifetime, when dry years made the ranch pasturage insufficient for the needs of the sheep, he and the herders used to drive the flocks sometimes up into the Bishop country, sometimes up to Big Bear to feed in the meadow which has since become Big Bear Lake.
Feb 24, 2019 · And why did people vote to change El Toro to Lake Forest in 1991? Residents of the Lake Forest planned communities thought their name sounded more chic. Some also did not want to be associated with the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro – what with all its unfortunate connotations of defending our country and our freedom.
Rancho Cañada de los Alisos was granted in 1842 to José Antonio Serrano. By 1863, the community that grew up in Serrano's rancho came to be known as El Toro. Nearly 150 years later, in 1991, El Toro incorporated and changed its name to Lake Forest.
Mar 17, 1991 · As protests mount against it, the renaming of El Toro as Lake Forest is another action that should not stand.
