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Welcome To Rancho Santa Margarita

Located along the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains, the city incorporated on January 1, 2000, and became the thirty third city in the County of Orange. The City has a population of 49,249. Rancho Santa Margarita is a city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a newer, planned community set upon rolling hills.The first residents of the area known a Rancho Santa Margarita were Shoshonean Native Americans called Acagchemen. This area was purchased in

1843 by Juan Forster who renamed it "La Victoria". In 1864 Forster added Rancho Santa Margarita to his already vast land holdings. The cost of managing so much land left Forster in debt, and when he died, his heirs sold much of the land that he had worked so hard to acquire. The land was sold to James C. Flood and Richard O'Neill, Sr. after acquiring all the property 'on a handshake', O'Neill deeded his land holdings to his son, Jerome, under whose leadership the ranch grew to 230,000 acres and spanned three counties. These holdings were incorporated under

the name of Rancho Santa Margarita Company. After O'Neill's death in 1926, the land was left to heirs who incorporated the land into developed communities, including Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita So climb up the mountain and experience the foothills that are Rancho Santa Margarita.

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