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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 (745 words) - 17:08, 8 May 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 (1,321 words) - 16:21, 5 May 2024
- [[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) - 19:01, 5 May 2024
- 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
- ...the bluffs below California Street. This low, flat flood plain was the old mission produce garden, bounded by a row of willow trees. In 1853, a coastal survey ...senger depot was located on Cherry Street, near the mouth of the [[Mission Hill tunnel]]. In addition to its proximity to the owner’s house, the depot wa7 KB (1,112 words) - 18:10, 20 October 2023
- ...on Santa Cruz]], with its adobe buildings arranged around the plaza on the hill, and with its farm lands on the river bottom land below. ...Brewery was the second in town, after the Otto Diesing Brewery (1850s) on Mission Street. Unlike the Diesing Brewery, Bausch had enough land to include a Ger8 KB (1,404 words) - 18:10, 20 October 2023
- ...e side of its tender, at its Santa Cruz depot, just south of the [[Mission Hill tunnel]]. ...remaining dead-end track is mostly unused, although still crossing Graham Hill Road and connected to Santa Cruz through Roaring Camp. The photo at left lo6 KB (953 words) - 18:11, 20 October 2023
- ...er guess that the quiet residential neighborhood tucked up against Mission Hill (shown in the photo at right) was once Santa Cruz' first railroad yard. ...un its narrow-gauge trains from Alameda to Santa Cruz, through the Mission Hill tunnel, and on down Chestnut Street to its terminus on the "railroad" wharf5 KB (860 words) - 18:13, 20 October 2023
- ...the perennial creeks from these springs were the original water supply for Mission Santa Cruz. Dodero died in 1866; he and his wife are buried at Holy Cross c ...Hwy 1, but an old-time Swanton local might be needed to point out Gianone Hill. Much of the former Coast Dairies land (which includes the old Scaroni and5 KB (882 words) - 19:08, 5 May 2024
- ...nta Cruz during the 1870s. The brothers collaborated on a big house on the hill for Calvin, second only to the Hihn mansion (which the brothers also design5 KB (856 words) - 18:16, 20 October 2023
- ...a year-round downtown connection for the Watsonville road (part of the old mission road route). Tourism was bringing more visitors to our town than ever, now ...r]], the Azorean native who had previously built a saloon and residence on Mission Plaza (now Sylvar Street).6 KB (916 words) - 18:18, 20 October 2023
- The [[Beach Hill neighborhood]] reached its peak of gentility during the years from 1883 to ...ea what the original Bowman house looked like by seeing the Davis House on Mission Street. Why? Because the team of [[Davis, Calvin & Wellington|Calvin Davis6 KB (1,016 words) - 18:19, 20 October 2023
- ...an missions in Alta California. And one of the first things the Santa Cruz mission had to do in 1792 (after moving up from the river bottom) was to get some o ...ject as the dam/aqueduct/reservoir system constructed at the Santa Barbara mission, but it delivered an adequate water supply for many years to the smaller Sa12 KB (1,952 words) - 18:19, 20 October 2023
- ...9 Bayview School building (SCPL 0546) can be seen at the intersection with Mission Street, where the school’s later incarnation stands today. ...ght may be the old mission grist mill, constructed in 1796. Chase says the mission mill was gone by 1866, but the 1866 map shows the mill property - a small p24 KB (3,943 words) - 18:13, 22 February 2024
- ...the left of the Sister’s School is the brand-new white, 3-story Mission Hill School with its tall cupola. That 1875 building replaced the original schoo ...el replica that now stands on the east side of Mission Plaza (Trousset’s mission painting is on display there).The original chapel stood where Holy Cross Ch6 KB (964 words) - 17:41, 26 March 2023
- ...- ...rerouted SC&F line on Chestnut Street, coming through the new Mission Hill tunnel. ...enue Street Railroad after completion of the railroad tunnel under Mission Hill. A horsecar is shown on that track, not far from the wharf. The separate ra8 KB (1,404 words) - 17:42, 26 March 2023
- *'''1876''' - With completion of the Mission Hill tunnel, the rerouted SC&F line paralleled (or shared) the SCR line down Che ...ue Street Railroad after completion of the railroad tunnel through Mission Hill. A horsecar is shown on that track, not far from the wharf. The separate ra6 KB (1,080 words) - 07:09, 16 October 2021
- *Mission ("the Coast road, from the Lower Plaza to Four Corners"), *Rincon (the street at the base of the hill south of school lot").4 KB (646 words) - 17:59, 17 September 2023
- ...page 62 [Mission Hill railroad tunnel]; Chapter Four, item (14), page 89 [[Mission Plaza]]1 KB (137 words) - 19:27, 7 May 2024
- ...-byDA-txt-txIN-%22Water+Works%22-------1 Anthony built a new house "on the hill near the water works reservoir"] (on the bluff at the end of today's School2 KB (332 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2024
- ...a property owner on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 1" (Mission Hill) of the core downtown area.480 bytes (65 words) - 05:36, 27 October 2021
- **1782 - married while a ''soldado de cuera'' ("leather-jacket" soldier) at Mission San Gabriel. They had nine children who lived to adulthood. **1787 - was a member of the ''escolta'' (military detachment) at Mission Soledad3 KB (426 words) - 17:45, 28 December 2023
- ...map "A" listed "heirs of Chapell" as owners of a lot in "Block 1" (Mission Hill).904 bytes (119 words) - 17:39, 6 November 2023
- ...History of Mission Santa Cruz and its successor (1933 book)|''Story of the mission Santa Cruz'']]. San Francisco, Calif: P. Elder and Co. * '''2002'''. Dunn, G., Grady, L. L., Hill, T., Houston, J. D., Lydon, S., Marcus, M., & Ow, G. ''Chinatown dreams: Th6 KB (820 words) - 01:20, 11 March 2024
- ...a property owner on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 1" (Mission Hill) of the core downtown area.398 bytes (57 words) - 06:19, 4 November 2021
- ...a property owner on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 1" (Mission Hill) of the core downtown area.397 bytes (57 words) - 06:21, 4 November 2021
- ...a property owner on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 1" (Mission Hill) of the core downtown area. He was a Soc. of Pioneers member, described as549 bytes (78 words) - 18:12, 15 September 2023
- ...a property owner on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 1" (Mission Hill) of the core downtown area.575 bytes (80 words) - 15:27, 6 August 2023
- ...ion Street. We definitely know that there was an old brick building across Mission until 1989, when it was fatally damaged in the quake. Could Leslie have bui1 KB (191 words) - 02:39, 27 November 2021
- ...a property owner on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 1" (Mission Hill) of the core downtown area. Possibly related to [[Nolan, P.]].435 bytes (62 words) - 06:41, 4 November 2021
- ...(Mission Hill) of the core downtown area. The property was half of an old mission adobe, acquired from [[Armas, Felipe|Felipe Armas]] (or his estate) in 18641 KB (171 words) - 19:22, 23 March 2024
- ...Fountain House") on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 1" (Mission Hill) of the core downtown area. Possibly related to [[Nolan, Hugh|Hugh Nolan]]495 bytes (71 words) - 06:50, 4 November 2021
- ...Cruz map]], in "Block No. 1" (Mission Hill) of the core downtown area. His Mission Street brewery, established in 1865, was probably the first in Santa Cruz.832 bytes (112 words) - 00:13, 30 July 2023
- ...owner ("office") on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 1" (Mission Hill) of the core downtown area. The ''Sentinel'' article noted that Nutter's lo632 bytes (95 words) - 02:31, 1 December 2021
