Most of Garden Groves past memories are gone but there is one last farmhouse left on Euclid Street. It's a step back in time, which is exactly what the Garden Grove Historical Society intended. The farmhouse built in 1893 is called the Stanley House, after one of its original owners, and it serves as the city's only museum. Next door to it is a strawberry patch, one of the few left in a city once known for its berry fields. Today the city is a bedroom community with a lots businesses. The name of the city was possibly suggested by Mormons passing through since the area was filled with fruits fields as far as the eye can see and more than likely resembled a garden. Once known as the strawberry capital, this status is still celebrated each Memorial Day weekend with a parade and carnival.
Garden Grove's past has its darker side, too. It was home to a Japanese internment camp and a small prisoner-of-war camp for German soldiers during World War II. Today the city has a large Korean community, as well as growing Vietnamese and Hispanic populations that promise an even richer and more diverse future.