Tustin Tiller Days is a celebration of the City’s beginnings and community spirit. Held in October, the event features a parade, rides, booths, music, and food.
Juanita Lovret talks about Fourth of July when she was young.
For many years only essential businesses, several general stores, two blacksmith shops, a hardware store, a feed store, pool hall and at least one bar operated in Tustin.
Cowan Heights has lost little of its rural charm with development. A favorite neighborhood in unincorporated North Tustin, it is now the site of many million dollar homes.
During the hot summers in Tustin, residents spent July and August at the beach – Newport and Laguna Beach
Recent pounding rain followed by a thick blanket of snow on Santiago Peak with temperatures that make you shiver. People wonder if it ever snowed in Tustin.
Tustin history has its own record of a UFO experience when on August 3, 1965, Rex Heflin saw disk-shaped craft near Tustin’s Lighter-than-Air Base hangars.
Columbus Tustin established a grammar school in the 1870s, but 50 years passed before the city had their first Tustin High School.
David Hewes is known for his work in reclaiming and restoring San Francisco in the 1850s and 1860s and then supporting the Transcontinental Railroad. But he and his wife played a strong role in early Tustin as well.
In 1868, Columbus Tustin and Nelson O. Stafford together purchased the land that was to become the future cities of Tustin and part of Santa Ana.