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  • #[[History Pages: 15 - Around the New County]]. Scott, Waddell, Porter, Coast Survey map ...: 36 - Gentrification: Downtown Santa Cruz in the 1870s]]. Hihn subdivides north of Lincoln.
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  • ...very little outright hostility during his journeys, especially as he moved north into areas where natives had not previously interacted with Europeans. ...t 40 years ago, writers used the name Costanoan, from the Spanish word for coast. The image at right (courtesy of OAC) is a drawing of a group of native dan
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  • ...issed the entrances to Monterey and San Francisco bays, and made it as far north as the mouth of the Russian River before turning back. On the way south, he ...on the section of Highway 1 that runs the length of Santa Cruz County from north to south. The photo is of a sign from San Mateo County, but there must be o
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  • .... Bouchard’s little fleet (two ships) came from Hawaii to the California coast in 1818, aiming to cause harm to Spanish interests there. The provincial ca ...de la Asuncion Ortega, and went with Captain Arguello on a trip to the far north in the autumn. John Rose was zealously perfecting his religious education a
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  • '''Moore Creek''', named for [[Moore, Eli|Eli Moore]], runs north-south near and parallel to the western boundary of the city of Santa Cruz. [[Category:North coast waterways]]
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  • ...ek_(California) Waddell Creek]''' empties into the Pacific farthest to the north of any Santa Cruz County waterway, and is within the Rancho del Oso section [[Category:North coast waterways]]
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  • ...ips, especially the new steamships, were built to carry supplies along the coast to San Francisco, and up the Sacramento River to the gold country. The expa ...d in later years. One of these was a newspaper. The Pacific Sentinel moved north from Monterey in 1856, and stayed on to become the area’s oldest newspape
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  • ..._Ranch_State_Park Wilder Ranch State Park]''' is located on the coast just north of the Santa Cruz city limits. The core of the park was once the dairy farm
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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
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  • ...rming was soon to become a major industry. One of the pioneers among North Coast dairymen was [[Wilder, Delos D.|Delos Wilder]]. In partnership with [[Baldw North of Baldwin, near the top of the map image, you can see the names Davis & Co
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  • [[Category:North coast waterways]] [[Category:North coast]]
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  • '''Delos D. Wilder''' was one of the pioneers among North Coast dairymen, in partnership with [[Baldwin, Levi K.|Levi Baldwin]]. The two es
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  • '''Levi K. Baldwin''' was one of the pioneers among North Coast dairymen, in partnership with [[Wilder, Delos D.|Delos Wilder]]. The two es ...strations (1997 edition)]], p50 (Baldwin contributed a report on the north coast dairies)
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  • [[Category:North coast waterways]]
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  • ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_Coast_Railroad South Pacific Coast railroad]. ...in 1846, Alzina was one of the many who eventually found their ways to the north end of the bay. Alzina’s father-in-law [[Gonzales, Juan|Juan Gonzales]] w
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  • ...iam|William Waddell]], the north coast lumberman, and acquired a farm just north of Santa Cruz at what is now called "Terrace Point". Younger’s son and gr ...photo at right) to rail cars for the last five-mile leg of the trip to the coast.
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  • ...addell]], the north coast lumberman, and acquired a farm on the coast just north of Santa Cruz at what is now called "Terrace Point". Younger’s son and gr
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  • ...of a quandary. To avoid major elevation changes, the line stayed near the coast until it reached the flat expanses of the Pajaro Valley. From there, it mig When the Watsonville leaders saw the proposed route staying close to the coast, however, they filed a lawsuit to force the SCR to bring it inland closer t
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  • ...Chinese certainly came to Mexico (and may have visited the Alta California coast) as crew on the "Manila galleons" in the period from 1565-1815. ...New Brighton Beach (photo) and another near the mouth of the Pajaro River. North of Davenport there's a coastal cliff called "China Ladder" because Chinese
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  • ...metal products necessary for the latest architectural styles from the East Coast and Europe. Experienced builders and architects arrived to ply their trades The north-of-Lincoln downtown neighborhood developed other amenities during this peri
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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.
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  • .... 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
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  • 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
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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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  • ...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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  • ...f Massachusetts, came to Santa Cruz in the 1870s, and was engaged in north-coast dairying. In the later years of his long life, he was involved in banking,
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  • ...Thereafter he was involved in various activities in the county: as a north-coast rancher; as a trustee of the Felton & Santa-Cruz railroad; and as a subdivi
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  • ...trains began to follow those routes all the way to the West Coast - to the north of California, so the main route became known as the [https://en.wikipedia.
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  • ...w from the [[Santa Cruz Mountains]] into the Pacific Ocean along the north coast. San Vicente Creek borders the community of [[Davenport]]. [[Category:North coast]]
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  • [[Category:North coast]]
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  • ...Dairies State Park'''] comprises a five-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast north and south of [[Davenport]], and a recently added inland area. [[Category:North coast]]
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  • ...spx '''Scott Creek County Beach'''], popular with wind surfers, is located north of [[Davenport]], near the community of [[Swanton]]. [[Category:North coast]]
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  • ...'''Swanton'''] is a residential area located mostly along [[Scott Creek]], north of [[Davenport]] and slightly inland. [[Scott Creek County Beach]] is a nea [[Category:North coast]]
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  • ...w from the [[Santa Cruz Mountains]] into the Pacific Ocean along the north coast. The community of [[Swanton]] is concentrated mostly along the creek. [[Category:North coast waterways]]
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  • ...again. Situated ninety miles south of San Francisco along the Monterey Bay coast,<br> Mark Bristow, North California by Gregory Hall, and more. The posters and broadsides rarely had
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