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Browsing Local History Articles by " Santa Cruz City Water Department "
History of the Santa Cruz City Water Department, by
Santa Cruz City Water Department
"For Santa Cruz, the beginning of water supply development took place in 1792 when the Padres of the Mission Santa ... [Read more]
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Thomas Jefferson Weeks was born into a prominent family in the town of Wayne, Kennebec County, Maine on November 22, 1829. But as a child, he had a strange far-away look in his eyes, the kind of look that made it impossible for him to fit into the niche his ..." [More]
Excerpted from A Walk Through Time: Thomas J. Weeks by Janet Krassow and Randy Krassow