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W.H Weeks, ArchitectNeoClassical Revival StyleSanta Cruz County Historical Trust Landmark
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Civic Renaissance CenterThe Great Fire of 1894 left 3 blocks of destruction around the 1866 Cooper St. Civic Center. The Civic reconstruction promoted Renaissance designs to show "Culture" had arrived in Santa Cruz, and surrounding businesses pick…
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1850's Greek Revival home of Richard C. Kirby, Tanner & Kirby, Early Reformist
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An intellectual, humanitarian and suffragist, Georgiana raised her family in this house from 1854 until her death in 1887. Born in England and educated in the East by America's leading thinkers and writers. She brought to California an intellectua…
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James WilliamsCalifornia PioneerJames Williams, age 29 and a native of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, emigrated overland to California in 1843 along with his three brothers - John, age 25; Isaac, age 20; and Squire, age 19 - in a wagon train captained …
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Born a slave May 5, 1800 on a North Carolina plantation, Louden (London) Nelson worked the cotton fields until his master, Matthew Nelson brought him to the 1849 California Gold Rush. After securing his freedom, he arrived in Santa Cruz in 1856. N…
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Isaac Graham: Born Sept. 1, 1800 in Fincastle, Virginia, was a rough and tumble trapper and mountain man, who wandered the western wilderness. He ended up in 1836 Natividad, California where he ran a Saloon and Whiskey Still.
He organized Los …
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Founder Publisher and EditorSanta Cruz SurfBrilliant in mind, just in judgment, valiant in spirit, for forty years leader in initiative thought and action for the public welfare.He rests here in the place of his choice under the shadows of the tre…
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California PioneersJames Williams - Chiles-Walker Party 1843Mary Patterson - Stephens-Murphy Party 1844
Married August 24, 1845by Thomas O. LarkinMonterey, Ca.
Twin SonsJames Andrew Apr 4, 1851 - Jan 4, 1852Andrew James Apr 4, 1851 - Jan 4, …
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Grove C. Cook, a native of Kentucky, came to California in 1841 as a member of the Bidwell-Bartleson Party, the first overland emigrant wagon train to set out from the United States to cross the continent to the Pacific Slope.The party was forced …