"The proposed name -- Orange County -- was prophetic, as Valencia orange groves would later blanket vast swaths of Orange County. But at the time, the height of citriculture was still decades away. The name, first proposed in 1872, was merely a marketing ploy. "Orange County was selected because it sounded nice," Brigandi writes. "Southern California in those days was being promoted as a semi-tropical paradise...and oranges fit that image.""
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