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"...out of Santa Cruz one must expect to encounter many disagreeable things that one has entirely forgotten the existence of [while] in that delightful spot."
--Eliza Farnham. California In-doors and Out, 1856.

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• Aptos History, by John Hibble
• The Big Basin, by Eloise J. Roorbach. *
• Bonny Doon Property Owners of 1905, by Robert W. Piwarzyk
• Camp McQuaide, by Carmen Morones
• Chinatown, excerpt from: Economic Development in the City of Santa Cruz 1850-1950, by Susan Lehmann
• Coast Dairies Property: A Land Use History
  • Section 1.1 - Prehistory
  • Section 1.2 - A Humanized Landscape
  • Section 1.3 - The Coming of Coast Dairies: Transformation
  • Section 1.4 - Into the Present
  • Section 1.5 - References Cited
• Colonist Tickets Will Be Sold to California...
  (an advertisment from Southern Pacific describing Santa Cruz in 1901.)

• De La Cruz Beach--Location of once-proposed development
• Early History of Davenport, by Alverda Orlando.*
• The Early Years, [Rio Del Mar and Aptos] by Allen Collins.
• Garfield Park Tabernacle and Garfield Park Christian Church, by Daniel McMahon *
• Home Ranch of the Cowells, by Josephine C. McCrackin *
• Human Uses of the San Lorenzo River Watershed
• [Mission Hill] National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form for the Mission Hill Area Historic District
• Old Riverview Avenue Historic District of Capitola
• Photo Gallery of Pacific Avenue * (graphic intense)
• Rafael Castro's Rancho Aptos was Oldest Land Grant to Remain Under Mexican Ownership, by Jim Johnson
• Reminiscences of Seabright, [Excerpts] by Miss Forbes.
• The Rise and Fall of Holy City, by John V. Young.
• The Roads of Bonny Doon, by Robert W. Piwarzyk
• Santa Cruz Owes Site to Spud Rush, by Ross Eric Gibson.
• A Sea-Port on the Pacific (1878), by Mary Hallock Foote.
• Skyland and Highland, by John V. Young.
• The Spreckels Era in Rio Del Mar, 1872--1922, by Allen Collins.
• West Cliff -- Millionaires' Row, by Ross Eric Gibson

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