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  • ...uilt later, by SP. From Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz & Felton line continued north into the San Lorenzo Valley, but stopped at the bottom of the log flume on ...nother railroad was tunneling its way into the County (literally) from the north. One of the men behind this effort invested heavily at the Santa Cruz end o
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  • .... It was established at the east end of a tunnel dug for the South Pacific Coast Railroad in 1879-80. Nearby was a sawmill built by [[Hihn, Frederick A.|F.
    355 bytes (59 words) - 20:39, 7 September 2021
  • .... It was established at the west end of a tunnel dug for the South Pacific Coast Railroad in 1879-80. [[Laurel]] was established at the other end of the sam
    437 bytes (68 words) - 23:08, 22 February 2023
  • At the north end of the line in Santa Cruz, SP also acquired the SCR depot and service y ...he 1883 map is the separate depot belonging to the competing South Pacific Coast railroad.
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  • ...eaking out of layers of “bituminous rock” that surface along the north coast. The problem was that only small quantities could be obtained in this way, ...n still be seen today. A wagon road was built to haul the rock down to the Coast Road and, at some point, was paved with asphaltum from the mine. Over 100 y
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  • ...f those families came from the same same town near Genoa, on the northwest coast of Italy. Another town in that area is now a Santa Cruz sister city - Sestr ...tt's 1879 ''Santa Cruz County Illustrations'' includes an article on north coast dairies, by dairyman [[Baldwin, Levi K.|L. K. Baldwin]]
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  • ...Happy Valley Road junction). The overflow was piped down to a tank at the north end of Branciforte Avenue (see note 5), and piped from there to a San Loren ...H. Duke became S.C.W.Co. manager, bought property on Majors Creek (now the north boundary of Wilder Ranch State Park), where another diversion dam was built
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  • 1. "Coast Road". This identification is incorrect. The road indicated is today's Bay ...perpendicular to the warehouse may be an older warehouse shown on the 1853 Coast Survey map – possibly built by Anthony at the same time as the first whar
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  • ...had the densest indigenous population of any area in all of North America (north of central Mexico).
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  • ...ps can be found, with the name BOYEA & SAWYER. Over on Center Street, just north of Elm, are a couple of "J. D. Ellis 1908" stamps. Apparently, each street ...tion to local use, large quantities of bituminous rock were shipped up the coast to San Francisco.
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  • *Mission ("the Coast road, from the Lower Plaza to Four Corners"), *BLOCK NO. 1. Bounded north by Mission Orchard; west by Upper Plaza; south by Mission street; east by R
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  • ...long the coast of Santa Cruz County, from the San Mateo County line in the north to the Monterey County line at Pajaro. From Davenport to Pajaro, the trail
    490 bytes (72 words) - 21:20, 5 February 2023
  • ...g, John|John King]] built a wharf and other facilities at the little North Coast cove. In addition to Davenport's own activities, the wharf was used by loca [[Category:North coast]]
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  • ...g, John|John King]] built a wharf and other facilities at the little North Coast cove. In addition to Davenport's own activities, the wharf was used by loca [[Category:North coast]]
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  • ...ce_Campus UC Santa Cruz Coastal Science Campus], located on the coast just north of Santa Cruz at what is now called "Terrace Point". Descendants of [[Young
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  • ...n still be seen today. A wagon road was built to haul the rock down to the Coast Road and, at some point, was paved with asphaltum from the mine. ...strations (1997 edition)]], p50 (Baldwin contributed a report on the north coast dairies)
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  • '''Isaac L. Thurber''', a north coast landowner and [[Bituminous rock|bituminous rock]] mine operator. Neighborin ...strations (1997 edition)]], p50 (Baldwin contributed a report on the north coast dairies)
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  • ...ny built the county's first hydroelectric power plant on [[:Category:North coast waterways|Big Creek]], feeding the first electric power distribution system
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  • ...uisition of both the [[Santa Cruz Railroad (SCR)]] and the [[South Pacific Coast Railroad (SPC)]]. At first, the existence of both the former SCR tracks tha ...had completed its standard-gauge conversions, and the tracks arriving from north and south were connected. Highways and motor vehicles, in turn, took local
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  • ...ng those years (there were, no doubt, shipwrecks along our rocky and foggy coast). ...places Portolá visited were claimed for the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the North American part of the Spanish monarchy’s colonial empire.
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