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Browsing Local History Articles by "Stephen Michael Payne"
A Howling Wilderness: The Summit Road Area - Santa Cruz Mountains, by
Stephen Michael Payne
Situated between the Town of Los Gatos and the City of Santa Cruz, in the central coast counties of California, ... [Read more]
Resorts in the Summit Road Area, 1850-1906, by
Stephen Michael Payne
Hotel de Redwood, the first hotel in the Summit area of the Santa Cruz Mountains, was built in 1859, at ... [Read more]
Stagecoach Days in the Mountains, by
Stephen Michael Payne
The roads over the Santa Cruz Mountains served not only the settlers and loggers living and working on the summit, ... [Read more]
Stagecoach Days in the Mountains, by
Stephen Michael Payne
George Lewis Colegrove was born in the Dundee area of McHenry County, Illinois, on March 29, 1843. When he was ... [Read more]
Josephine Clifford McCrackin, by
Stephen Michael Payne
In October and November 1880 a writer, Josephine Wompner Clifford, purchased a total of twenty-six acres for $504 from Lyman ... [Read more]
Felling the Giants, by
Stephen Michael Payne
The first redwood tree (Sequoia Sempervirens) seen by a white man was on the Corrallitos Creek, in what is now ... [Read more]
A Howling Wilderness - Selected Bibliography, by
Stephen Michael Payne
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Education in the Summit Road Area: 1850-1906, by
Stephen Michael Payne
The devotion of the Summit settlers to their children's education was evidenced by the number of school districts formed over ... [Read more]
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Throughout the history of Santa Cruz County and the central coast area there have been an irregularly occurring series of plagues and epidemics. Documented evidence lists at least half a dozen before the advent of statehood.
Recorded history of the Monterey Bay region begins with the coastal explorations ..." [More]
Excerpted from Voices of the Heart: Introduction by Phil Reader
