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To the north lie the unincorporated neighborhood of Rossmoor and the city of Los Alamitos. A majority of the city's acreage is committed to the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach military base. History [modify] Beginning in the mid-1860s, the eastern location of what is now Old Town Seal Beach became referred to as Anaheim Landing.
It was developed by farmers and merchants in the newly settled town of Anaheim who desired a closer, easier port to ship the wine they were growing and also to get items they needed to help construct homes and structures in their brand-new town. For a few years Anaheim Landing came close to equaling San Pedro for its volume of shipping, however the arrival of the railroad in Anaheim in 1875 made it simpler to deliver item via the rails than by transporting a wagon overland throughout 12 miles of soft soil to the Landing.
Los Angeles newspapers talk of a long-term summertime population of as many as 400 and even more on weddings. Throughout the year, the landing was likewise home to a number of fishing boats that plied the local fishing locations. Source was discussed by Nobel-prize winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz in a brief essay, "The Cranes." The website of Anaheim Landing is now signed up as a California Historic Landmark.

Stanton, really knowledgeable about the area from his time selling land in Anaheim, and Huntington Beach and likewise from representing the local realty interests of lender (and Pacific Electric Railway co-owner) Isaias W. Hellman, assembled a syndicate to lay out the town of Bayside on the land between Anaheim Landing and Anaheim Bay and the eastern edge of Alamitos Bay.
As there was currently a town called Bayside in Northern California (by Eureka) Stanton's group rather called their brand-new town Bay City. Due to many factorsincluding competitors from other beach resort areas (Long Beach, Redondo Beach and Venice/Ocean Park/Santa Monica), some national monetary crises, and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake which sent out most investment dollars to the more profitable restoring of San Francisco, Bay City came a cropper as a real estate investment.