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• History Pages: 38 - How the Trains Came to Santa Cruz – Part 4
  ...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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• Laurel
  .... 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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• Glenwood
  .... 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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• History Pages: 42 - Southern Pacific took over Santa Cruz County railroads in the 1880s
  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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• History Pages: 44 - Petroleum in Santa Cruz, Then and Now
  ...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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• History Pages: 46 - The Italians
  ...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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• History Pages: 52 - Santa Cruz water system timeline
  ...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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• Panorama 1: Bird’s Eye View of Santa Cruz, 1870
  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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• Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization (1995 book)
  ...had the densest indigenous population of any area in all of North America (north of central Mexico).
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• Sidewalks of Washington Street
  ...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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• 1866 Santa Cruz map
  *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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• Santa Cruz County Coastal Rail Trail
  ...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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• Davenport
  ...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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• Davenport, John P.
  ...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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• UCSC Long Marine Lab
  ...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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• Walrath, A.
  ...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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• Thurber, Isaac L.
  '''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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• Swanton, Fred W.
  ...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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• History Pages: 57 - Union Depot
  ...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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• Spanish in Santa Cruz County place names
  ...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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• Baldwin, Frederick D.
  ...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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• Gushee, Horace
  ...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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• History Pages: 8 - The Wagon Trains
  ...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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• San Vicente Creek
  ...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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• San Vicente Redwoods
  [[Category:North coast]]
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• Cotoni Dairies State Park
  ...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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• Scott Creek County Beach
  ...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
  ...'''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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• Scott Creek
  ...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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• The Church of Poetry
  ...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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• Chinese Gold (1985 book)
  ...and Kwangtung) province, then came by ship to San Francisco and other West Coast ports. From there, the labor contractors distributed them to job sites. The ...mouth of the Pajaro River. Other Chinese harvested abalone along the north coast, where boats were not needed.
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• Highway 1
  ...shown on the Google Maps detail at right. The state also gave the Central Coast portion of Highway 1 the name "Cabrillo Highway", which makes no historical * "Coast Road" in ''The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture'', 4th edition
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• Bituminous rock
  ...found in many places of coastal California, including the coastal terraces north of Santa Cruz. The thick petroleum (also called "asphaltum" and/or "bitumen Several north coast landowners were involved in bituminous rock mining, including [[Thurber, Is
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