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• History Pages: 10 - The Territory
  ...nd Hames’ brother Benjamin later followed John, settling in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood of Corralitos. His name is remembered on today’s Hames Road. ...age with Isaac Graham(2). Bennett Creek, however, which flows into the San Lorenzo at Felton, was named for [[Bennett, Eben|Eben Bennett]] (apparently no rela
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• Farnham, Eliza W.
  ...o gifted him with a farmstead. Following Thomas’s untimely 1848 death in San Francisco, Eliza and their children came to live on the farm. She went on t ...ham-1815-1864.html "Eliza Burhans Farnham (1815 - 1864)"], The San Lorenzo Valley Museum Blog, 2020-03-19, accessed 2023-08-12
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• History Pages: 28 - How the trains came to Santa Cruz (part 1)
  ...’s first goal was a better way to bring lumber down from the San Lorenzo Valley to the wharves of Santa Cruz. A third group was more interested in getting ...nger]]. Younger, born in Missouri, came with his father Coleman Younger to San Jose in 1850. He began his law practice there, but soon opened an office in
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• History Pages: 29 - How the trains came to Santa Cruz (part 2)
  ...d be built, Felton lime manufacturers, California Powder Works and the San Lorenzo Paper Mill also started using it. A passenger connection to the outside wor ...as an immigrant from Germany, and became wealthy in the sugar business in San Francisco. Other partners included Ben Porter (the tanner) and [[Hale, Titu
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• History Pages: 38 - How the Trains Came to Santa Cruz – Part 4
  ...ey, but stopped at the bottom of the log flume on the west side of the San Lorenzo River in Felton. Suddenly a wealthy tycoon, Fair invested in San Francisco real estate – and a railroad. In 1876, Fair and others establis
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• History Pages: 41 - Approaching the Gilded Age: Santa Cruz Enters the 1880s
  ...l. Other signs of the times - the [[History Pages: 31 – Paris on the San Lorenzo: Second Empire style|Second Empire-style]] mansard roof, and the horsecar a ...quantities of heavy and bulky materials, and by construction of the [[San Lorenzo flume]] that brought rough-milled planks from Boulder Creek down to the tra
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• History Pages: 52 - Santa Cruz water system timeline
  ...supplied different buildings. Runoff went over the bluffs down to the San Lorenzo River bottomlands. (see note 1) * 1875 - San Francisco investor Edgar Morgan bought up local water rights for an unknown
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• Quite Contrary, The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love (2014 book)
  ...of Yerba Buena, one of three settlements destined to be part of the future San Francisco. ...elf as a successful ranchero, proprietor of Rancho Zayante, across the San Lorenzo River from modern Felton.
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• Branciforte Creek
  ...ek]]. Areas/features found within the watershed include Glen Canyon, Happy Valley, Granite Creek, and the world-famous Mystery Spot. ...the Riverside: How Santa Cruz Lost and Re-found Its Connection to the San Lorenzo River", [[Santa Cruz County History Journal Number 9]], p20.
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• San Lorenzo flume
  The '''San Lorenzo flume''' was an elevated wooden waterway designed to carry milled lumber pl *[https://www.santacruzmah.org/ohj|The San Lorenzo Valley Flume by Lisa Robinson (2010].
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• History Pages: 57 - Union Depot
  ...5 [[Railroad wharf]], facilitating shipping of lumber from the San Lorenzo valley, and locally-manufactured wood products.
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• Railroad wharf
  ...the narrow-gauge railroad tracks bringing lumber down from the San Lorenzo valley to waiting ships. Contractor for the wharf was most likely [[Lynch, Sedgwic
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• Spanish in Santa Cruz County place names
  ...took them through our area, crossing and naming Rio de Pajaro, Rio de San Lorenzo, and Arroyo de Santa Cruz. All the places Portolá visited were claimed for ...“cluster names” - most associated with the river, such as San Lorenzo Valley.
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• Coolidge, Glenn E.
  *'''1945''', elected to the San Lorenzo Valley chamber of commerce in 1945, soon becoming its president.
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• Dougherty, William P.
  ...Dougherty''' (also spelled "Doherty"), born in Ireland, was a San Lorenzo Valley lumberman along with his brother [[Dougherty, James|James]].
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• Van Valkenberg, E. L.
  ...he widow of Henry van Valkenburgh (her second husband), founder of the San Lorenzo Paper Mill in 1860 (the site is now part of [[Paradise Park]]). Ellen made ...a/items/show/134535#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0 "The California Powder Works and San Lorenzo Paper Mill" (2008)], SCPL Local History Articles online, accessed 2023-08-1
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• Bennett, Vardamon
  ...le Vardamon stayed in San Francisco, and the Bennetts acquired San Lorenzo Valley timber land in 1847, where a sawmill was built on what is now called Love C
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• News and Notes
  ...led into a single pdf, which can be viewed/downloaded from the San Lorenzo Valley Museum website, at: https://slvmuseum.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/News%26Not [[Category:San Lorenzo Valley Museum]]
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• Cunningham, James F.
  ...swick, Canada, came to the San Lorenzo Valley penniless in 1870, after the San Francisco bank holding his savings went bust. He squatted on unclaimed timb
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