Apartments for Rent in Placentia, CA(635 Rentals)

When California was under Mexico's control, the governor routinely gave the country's citizens land grants. The area where the city of Placentia would eventually sit was a land grant given to a man named Juan Ontiveros. The region was named Rancho San Juan Cajon De Santa Ana and stretched across what would become the cities of Anaheim, Fullerton, Brea, and Placentia. Settlers and pioneers would arrive and settle in the middle of the 19th century, building schools, churches, and businesses along the way. The city's name is a Latin word that means "pleasant place to live, and residents would see its name on a map for the first time in 1910 when the Santa Fe Railroad was built nearby. People flocked to the area to participate in the growing citrus industry, and a network of streets was laid out by a pair of men named A.S. Bradford and Richard Melrose. Streets named in their honor still exist today.