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- The '''Mission Hill tunnel''' was completed in 1876 by the [[Santa Cruz & Felton (SC&F) Railroa870 bytes (129 words) - 04:53, 28 December 2023
- #REDIRECT [[:Category:Mission Hill neighborhood]]49 bytes (5 words) - 18:08, 23 June 2023
- [[File:Mission-Hill-School.jpg|right]] ...Sidewalk Companion'': ". . . 133 Mission Street is the site of the Mission Hill School, a raised-basement, three-story Italianate structure crowned with a2 KB (238 words) - 17:20, 21 March 2024
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- #[[History Pages: 3 - The Missionaries]]. Mission Santa Cruz was founded in 1791. #[[History Pages: 5 - The Ranchos]]. Former Mission lands became large land grants (1821-1846).5 KB (744 words) - 20:17, 23 January 2024
- ...te they selected was across the San Lorenzo River from the Mission, up the hill and out of the flood plain. The governor proposed to call the new establish ...at least Soquel Creek - the area between the creeks was disputed with the Mission). Despite the local attractions, the Spanish colonial government had troubl6 KB (976 words) - 21:11, 25 February 2024
- ...f tourists, who disembark and start taking photos of each other. Not so at Mission Santa Cruz. Why? Well, mostly because there’s not much left to see, but t [[File:Mission SC painting.jpeg|right]]8 KB (1,292 words) - 07:58, 6 January 2023
- [[File:Fulling mill at Mission Santa Ines, CA.jpg|thumb|left|Fulling mill at Mission Santa Ines, built by Joseph Chapman]] ...(a brandy distilled at the missions). Relations between the pueblo and the Mission, which had never been good, declined even further after this incident.14 KB (2,343 words) - 01:11, 18 August 2023
- [[File:Graham_Hill_Plaza.png|thumb|Shopping center on Graham Hill Road]] ...rey. He later built a water-powered mill upstream from the site of the old Mission mill, on Santa Cruz Creek (near the upper end of today's Laurel Street). Th6 KB (895 words) - 20:28, 6 November 2023
- ...[Blackburn, William|William Blackburn]]) of the remaining unclaimed former mission lands, divided into parcels of varying size. ...ns of Soquel village. Twenty years later, Daubenbiss built the home on the hill that remains one of Soquel’s prominent landmarks. Daubenbiss' brother Hen5 KB (842 words) - 03:11, 19 November 2023
- ...ystem, but you can see the remains of a similar (more elaborate) system at Mission Santa Barbara. The new businesses, including two (or maybe three) grist mil ...lor who left his ship in Yerba Buena (San Francisco) and moved “over the hill” from San Jose sometime after the 1844 grant. Dodero built a grist mill,6 KB (980 words) - 17:55, 20 October 2023
- ...at today's corner of Pacific and Mission, and another around the corner on Mission. A scattering of unidentified residences can also be found. Hatching with p4 KB (731 words) - 17:57, 20 October 2023
- ...they needed. When the Americans came, they took over some of the abandoned Mission operations, notably the grist mill and tannery. They also brought new ways ...met [[Anthony, Elihu|Elihu Anthony]]. The two veterans came back over the hill to Santa Cruz in 1847, where Fallon took up his trade as a saddler while An6 KB (1,036 words) - 17:58, 20 October 2023
- ...gan from about the intersection of today’s Main and 1st streets on Beach Hill, and was sold to the California Powder Co. in 1865. According to Clark, Gha ...e Santa Cruz business center had definitely shifted down the hill from the Mission Plaza (see photo). Although Davis & Jordan had been shipping lime to make m4 KB (606 words) - 17:59, 20 October 2023
- ...bought and improved the Gharkey wharf at the foot of Main Street on Beach Hill. Later, when dynamite began to supplant black powder, company owners built ...om-Watkins.jpg|thumb|left|500px|Pope House, as seen looking northwest from Mission Street]]5 KB (902 words) - 18:00, 20 October 2023
- ...d, and the proceeds were later used to buy a lot adjacent to the [[Mission Hill School]]. The added lot became part of the schoolyard when the original 185 ...up Mission Street toward the 1875 school, you can see those steps. Besides Mission Street itself, the steps are the only thing in that photo that still exists5 KB (938 words) - 18:01, 20 October 2023
- ...by the time the California missions were secularized in the mid-1830s, the mission complex was in pretty sad shape. The adobe buildings that performed so well ...istrative center for the pueblo of Branciforte (including Santa Cruz after mission secularization). The offices of the alcalde and other pueblo officials, the5 KB (853 words) - 18:02, 20 October 2023
- ...eet became Front Street (the discontiguous section of Main Street on Beach Hill kept its name). The Pacific Avenue change may have had a connection to the Willow Street had been so-named because the mission padres planted a row (one source says a double row) of willow trees marking6 KB (1,070 words) - 17:00, 17 December 2023
- Regular stagecoaches and freight wagons ran “over the hill” to San Jose, both from Santa Cruz through Scotts Valley and also out of ...d what is now Sylvar Street (see a drawing in Elliott, p.f100), facing the mission plaza. Sylvar was one of the early immigrants to our area from the Azores I6 KB (919 words) - 18:04, 20 October 2023
- ...Mission Hill. The solution was to dig a 900-foot-long tunnel through the hill. Work on the tunnel began in 1876 and was finished before the end of the ye9 KB (1,512 words) - 20:12, 19 December 2023
- ...ing around to follow today’s Chestnut Street to a terminus below Mission Hill (prior to completion of the tunnel). It was more than a year later, however ...o the tracks laid by the two railroads, rails were extended up the hill on Mission Street and out past the [[Pope House]] hotel.6 KB (1,019 words) - 18:06, 20 October 2023
- ...Second Empire feature) survives as our [[Town Clock]]. In 1875, [[Mission Hill School]] was rebuilt in the new style, complete with cupola (on the horizon7 KB (1,162 words) - 18:07, 20 October 2023
- ...lly all of the local rail lines. The one notable exception was the Mission Hill tunnel, completed in 1876 by a crew of Cornish miners. ...2002 book)]], Geoffrey Dunn, editor; contributions by Lisa Liu Grady, Tony Hill, James D. Houston, Sandy Lydon, Morton Marcus, George Ow, Jr.9 KB (1,469 words) - 18:40, 6 April 2024
- ...be seen. The open ''zanja'' channel, built before 1800 to deliver water to Mission Santa Cruz, is no longer visible - it was under-grounded in 1870 where it c ...r its capture of the tannery complex, but also for its view south down the hill toward downtown Santa Cruz and the Bay. To the right of the flag pole, in t6 KB (902 words) - 18:09, 20 October 2023
