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Why Do Oranges Grow In Southern California?

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Nothing unusual about a trainload of oranges because these days there are also planes carrying freight loads of oranges all over the world. However if this happened to be the very first bunch of oranges that were grown in southern California in the U.S. to be shipped out by transcontinental railroad from Los Angeles then that was something to get excited about. The first time that the rest of the U.S. states got the chance to enjoy oranges grown in California was on February 14, 1886. Guess you could say that it was sort of like a Valentine’s present. In 1781 the Spanish had established the city of Los Angeles as one of the oldest cities in the Far West to help colonize the region. At one time this city became the largest center of population

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