Mission Plaza
From Santa Cruz County history wiki
Mission Plaza was the center of Mission Santa Cruz, and is now a city park. In 1870, Santa Cruz appointed a team who began the transformation of the unimproved open plaza space into today's park surrounded by streets.
- See History Pages: 13 - The County for an 1866 photo of the plaza area.
- John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Four, item (14), page 89