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  • #[[History Pages: 9 - Bear Flag Revolt]]. Fremont, Blackburn, Sweet ...ory Pages: 19 - Civil War]]. Anthony, Brown, Rodriguez, Powder Works, Pope House
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  • ...area a short time, but returned after the war to become prominent locals. Blackburn was elected as the first American ''alcalde'' of Branciforte/Santa Cruz and ...a sawmill up [[Branciforte Creek]], in an area still shown on USGS maps as Blackburn Gulch (upstream from where today’s Jarvis Road takes off from Branciforte
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  • ...n many new auctions (especially under alcalde [[Blackburn, William|William Blackburn]]) of the remaining unclaimed former mission lands, divided into parcels of [[File:Daubenbiss_house.png|thumb|The John Daubenbiss house in Soquel]]
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  • ...ers' convent/school (juzgado), Wm. Thompson house, Temperance Hall (behind house). The ''zanja'' (in-ground aqueduct) can be seen as a lighter line crossing ...are already familiar from preceding History Pages: Joseph Majors, William Blackburn, Elihu Anthony, John Daubenbiss, John Hames, Eli Moore.
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  • ...l, because he left in 1853 and went back to San Jose. He built a very nice house downtown in 1855 that is preserved today as one of San Jose’s [https://hi ...ve the interesting possibility that Judge Blackburn was also saloon-keeper Blackburn. Perhaps the name of a venerable bar across the street from today's courtho
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  • ...the new Pacific Ocean House Hotel (1865, replacing the burned San Lorenzo House), and [[Stevens, George C.|George C. Stevens]], a mason. In 1867, Field’s ...returned to Santa Cruz and set up shop as a shoemaker and leatherworker in Blackburn’s Eagle Hotel building (the old adobe ''juzgado'' on the [[Mission Plaza]
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  • ...ailed to contribute toward the costs of publication. A good example is the Blackburn brothers, William and Jacob. A lengthy biography of William appears in Elli ...ee the S. J. Lynch house - still standing today. To the right of the Lynch house is the Davis and Cowell Lime and Cement Co. warehouse (southwest corner of
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  • ...al lime works partner A. P. Jordan. In 1865, the house (now called Cardiff House) passed to Henry Cowell. *Above the Escalona, the one large house may represent the one Majors built.
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  • ...luffs, and later donated that site for today's Santa Cruz High School. His house was moved around the corner, and still stands at 724 California Street.
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  • ...me structure in Santa Cruz. It stands next-door to where his in-laws adobe house once was, on the west side of [[Mission Plaza]]. From 1850 to 1853, Alzina ...Architecture (4th ed. 2023)]]'', Chapter Four, entry (25), page 95 (Alzina house).
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  • ...tructure with a complex history. In 1869, John Morrow designed and built a house for [[Kittredge, Francis M.|F. M. Kittredge]] and his wife Almira Mead Kitt ...l 1883, when he left to build his own hotel on Front Street, named Swanton House.
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  • '''John R. Jarboe''' was a San Francisco attorney who had a house built on "Blackburn Hill" in 1890. His wife and daughter were both writers.
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