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Browsing Local History Articles by "Sandy Lydon"
A Half-Century of Service: The Watsonville Japanese-American Citizens League, 1934-1984, by
Sandy Lydon
This short history of the Watsonville Japanese-American Citizens League has been prepared to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the organization's ... [Read more]
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The first redwood tree (Sequoia Sempervirens) seen by a white man was on the Corrallitos Creek, in what is now Santa Cruz County, in October 1769, by members of the Portola Expedition. (62:480) One hundred years later redwood lumbering was Santa Cruz County's largest business. (46:192-197) In ..." [More]
Excerpted from Felling the Giants by Stephen Michael Payne