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Huntington Beach, United States
Huntington Beach, United States. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Huntington Beach, United States
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Huntington Beach
How work, access and surfing shaped Huntington Beach.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Huntington Beach is a city in Orange County, California, United States.
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1903
Work at the water’s edge
The settlement was originally called Pacific City.
It took the Huntington Beach name in 1903 during Henry E. Huntington’s railway development of the coast.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
The Pacific Electric Railway connected the developing beach settlement with inland Southern California, making repeated leisure visits practical.
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Kolohe Andino at the Huntington Beach US Surfing Open
Kolohe Andino at the Huntington Beach US Surfing Open. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Kolohe Andino at the Huntington Beach US Surfing Open
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1914
Surfing reads the same coast differently
In 1914, George Freeth was the first person to surf in Huntington Beach.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Huntington Beach is recorded at 33.660° N, 118.005° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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Huntington Beach, United States
Huntington Beach, United States. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Huntington Beach, United States
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
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TODAY
Huntington Beach now
Huntington Beach remains a large coastal city whose public identity, pier and recurring competitions are closely tied to surfing.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Huntington Beach, United States
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Kolohe Andino at the Huntington Beach US Surfing Open
AOD.US.HUNTINGTON-BEACH.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Huntington Beach, California overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.