Early Santa Anna Town Woodcut
Santa Ana Newspaper Woodcut from 1901
 This
early woodcut shows main street Santa Anna California as it appeared in
1887, about 18 years after my Great-Great Grand Father William H. Titchenal
purchased the first lot in Santa Ana in 1869.
The newspaper column at the left reads "The little
domicile neath the old sycamore in our today's sketch of old Santa Ana,
was the result of a deal between W. H. Spurgeon and W. H. Titchenal in
1869, the former selling to the latter one lot at $15, and giving one
other on the condition that he would built a house theron. Thus the nucleus
for a town was started, Santa Ana it was called."
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