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Benjamin Dreyfus, a Bavarian-Jewish immigrant, was the first to build a residence in what became Anaheim in 1857. Dreyfus became involved in the local wine industry shortly after it developed in the 1860s. He worked for the Anaheim Wine Growers Association in San Francisco in c. 1863 and thereafter formed his own winery in Anaheim and a wine distribution business in Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY. Viticulture took hold faster in Anaheim than any other city in the state, and Dreyfus became, by about 1880, the largest of them all. Demand began to outstrip the capacity of his first processing plant at East Center Street (now Lincoln Avenue) at East Street, and Dreyfus erected a second, larger and more grandiose winery on the southwest edge of town. Before it could begin operation, a bacterium began to attack the 914,000 grapevines planted among the 50 wineries in the area by 1883. This microbe, spread by the leafhopper, wiped out all but a handful of vines, ruining the fortunes of all Orange County grape growers. Farmers, thereafter, switched to raising walnuts and oranges, crops that built Anaheim's prosperity well into the twentieth century.

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