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Costa Mesa Located on the "coastal tableland" above
Newport Bay, Costa Mesa was once grazing grounds for cattle belonging to the Mission San
Juan Capistrano. At the beginning of the 19th century, missionaries built an adobe
"Estancia" or way-station for the vaqueros who tended the herds. This structure
still stands and was recently restored and transformed by the City into a museum at 1900
Adams Avenue. In 1810, this same area was a part of the Spanish land grant of Santiago Del
Santa Ana made to Jose Antonio Yorba. By 1880, settlers had begun buying portions of the
rancho from Yorba's heirs and in the same decade established the town of Fairview
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