Walker (a big local landowner and a major political player of the day) laid out an adjoining townsite that same year, but Cypress really didn’t being to grow until the 1920s, as Orange County began building a modern highway system – in this case, extending Lincoln Avenue west towards Long Beach. The area was also sometimes known as Waterville, for all the artesian wells in the area, but when the Pacific Electric trolley line came through in 1905 they adopted the Cypress name for the station. The original Cypress School was near the corner of Ball Road and Moody Street. They grow well in the climate here and are green all year-round (in fact the pioneers used to use the green cypress boughs as Christmas decorations before we began shipping in Christmas trees from hundreds of miles away). Just who selected the name Cypress is unclear, but cypress trees were popular then, both as ornamental trees and windbreaks. By 1896 there were enough families to support a school district. The community of Cypress began to take shape in the 1890s, as more and more settlers moved into the area on the western edge of Orange County.
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