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- Updating an old post about one of the “frontiersmen”, [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph Majors After leaving Monterey, Bouchard sailed south and mounted attacks on Santa Barbara and San Juan Capistrano before leaving California waters forever. S14 KB (2,343 words) - 01:11, 18 August 2023
- ...Wright had already created many maps for local landowners, but the [[1866 Santa Cruz map|Foreman & Wright map of 1866]] was the first with a civic purpose. ...the change obscured some local history and began a trend away from naming Santa Cruz streets after local native trees and other useful plants.6 KB (1,070 words) - 17:00, 17 December 2023
- ...y [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_Big_Trees_and_Pacific_Railway Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway] (as seen in the photo at right). ...Southern Pacific terminal in Pajaro, through Aptos and Capitola, and on to Santa Cruz.9 KB (1,512 words) - 20:12, 19 December 2023
- ...mmigration is once again a hot topic and, of course, the entire history of our area is about immigration – first came the Spanish, then the Americans, t There is some evidence that our coast was visited by Chinese fishermen well before the first Spanish explor9 KB (1,469 words) - 18:40, 6 April 2024
- ...later, motor vehicles eventually ended most seaborne transport to and from Santa Cruz, but in the late 1870s the waterfront was a bustling hub of shipping a ...f the panoramic photo also shows the “railroad wharf”, terminus of the Santa Cruz & Felton railroad tracks and completed in 1875. The railroad wharf, th7 KB (1,166 words) - 18:09, 20 October 2023
- ...nto land and/or new homes. In many cases, these new homes replaced earlier old-west style homes built in the 1850s from hand-hewn beams and rough-sawn lum ...and the bluffs below California Street. This low, flat flood plain was the old mission produce garden, bounded by a row of willow trees. In 1853, a coasta7 KB (1,112 words) - 18:10, 20 October 2023
- ...are in the Santa Cruz area. Most locals don’t realize that, in the past, our county had its own encounters with petroleum. ...”, and prospectors in California jumped in. The presence of petroleum in Santa Cruz County had long been known. Natives and Spanish padres found and used7 KB (1,103 words) - 18:14, 20 October 2023
- ...part of the old mission road route). Tourism was bringing more visitors to our town than ever, now that train and steamship travel had reduced the time an ...s Eve 1884, the pavilion was illuminated by the first electric lights in Santa Cruz (but not the first in the County - see note 1), powered by a steam gen6 KB (916 words) - 18:18, 20 October 2023
- '''Spanish''' language words are common in '''Santa Cruz County place names''' ...ones with connections to today’s non-Spanish place names. In addition to our local region, a few important more-general names are included here, along w34 KB (5,409 words) - 18:55, 10 July 2023
