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• History Pages: 4 - Branciforte
  ...oble family. Our home town thus acquired its first Italian name many years before any Italian ever set foot here - Branciforte never saw the place named afte ...ted with the Mission). Despite the local attractions, the Spanish colonial government had trouble inducing folks to leave their homes in established towns in Mex
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• History Pages: 3 - The Missionaries
  ...converts still lived there, and even fewer were local Ohlone. The Mexican government took away most of the mission’s extensive lands, which originally include ...quite a bit of their land after secularization, and again when California statehood nullified many of the Mexican land grants after 1850. The Santa Cruz parish
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• History Pages: 6 - The Sailors
  One of the fun things about studying pre-statehood California history is that, because there were so few people living here at ...sailed south and mounted attacks on Santa Barbara and San Juan Capistrano before leaving California waters forever. Somehow left behind (or perhaps desertin
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• History Pages: 10 - The Territory
  ...nga], only seven months after the Bear Flag revolt. From that treaty until statehood in 1850(1), California was U.S. occupied territory, under martial law and a ...untree, Almus L.|Almus Rountree]] to sell [[Point Santa Cruz]] to the U.S. government, which built the first local lighthouse there in 1869.
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• History Pages: 23 - The Institutions
  ...vic and social organizations. Those institutions, in turn, need public and government buildings, meeting halls, parks – places for the townies to do town thing ...pueblo officials, the courtroom and the jail were all located there. After statehood, the first county court hearings were held there.
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• Decline of the Californios (1966 book)
  ...es of these "Californio" families from the Mexican War into the gold rush, statehood and on through the development boom of the 1880s. There are no direct refer
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• Santa Cruz County
  ...1850 (initially/briefly named "Branciforte County"), following California statehood. A northern section was split off in 1856 to become part of San Mateo Count The county is governed by a [https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/Government/BoardofSupervisors.aspx Board of Supervisors].
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• History Pages: 54 - Timeline of Santa Cruz City, County government
  ...in November 1849, local government operated under the military occupation government of California, keeping the existing Mexican civil structure, conducting bus ** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim_government_of_California Interim Government of California]
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• Stevenson, Jonathan D.
  ...'s unclear whether Stevenson himself ever resided in this area, but before statehood he acquired by proxy a number of "town lots" through the local alcaldes. Th ...untree, Almus L.|Almus Rountree]] to sell [[Point Santa Cruz]] to the U.S. government, which built the first local lighthouse there in 1869.
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