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The Crystal Cove Historic District is a part of the Crystal Cove State Park located in Newport Beach, California. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places encompassing 12.3 acres (50,000 m 2) along the Southern California coast.
Newport Coast is located at 2] in the San Joaquin Hills above Crystal Cove State. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Census Designated Place (CDP) has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2). 7.1 square miles (18 km 2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) of it (2.22%) is water.
The park is located partially in Newport Beach and partially in an unincorporated area of Orange County, and is part of the larger South Coast Wilderness area. Crystal Cove is a stretch of coastal cliffs and a beachfront cove situated between the Pacific Coast Highway and the Pacific Ocean, southeast of Newport Beach and northwest of Laguna ...
Reggie Jackson, Hall of Fame baseball player, lived in Newport Beach; Jürgen Klinsmann, German football manager and former football player; Kevin Kouzmanoff, MLB player, San Diego Padres [20] Jillian Kraus (born 1986), water polo player; Ilia Kulik, figure skater; Joffery Lupul, NHL player, Toronto Maple Leafs; Bill Macatee, sportscaster
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County was initially developed as a documentary of teens living in the wealthy, beachside community of the same name. The first two seasons were successful, which led to the creation of the spin-off, The Hills, though the third season's ratings took a massive dip after the original cast left the series and was replaced by a set of current high school students.
It was the site used for the 1953 National Scout Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America. [1] The event was held where Newport Center and Fashion Island now sit. It was the third international jamboree; the first jamboree held west of the Mississippi River and had with 50,000 scouts from all 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, and 16 foreign countries. [2]
Aerial view of the Newport Municipal Pier at Newport Beach, California in the 1940s. The original pier was known as McFadden Wharf when it was completed in the summer of 1888 by local landowners James and Robert McFadden. [1] The wharf served as a shipping connection for the McFaddens to offload lumber, hides and other merchandise. [2]
Originally, Balboa Island was little more than a mudflat surrounded by swampland. Today's Newport Harbor emerged only after dredging millions of tons of silt. In the late 1860s, James McFadden and his brother, Robert, purchased a large portion of the future site of Newport, including the oceanfront of Newport Beach, much of Balboa Peninsula, and the sandbars that were to become Balboa Island ...