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Browsing Local History Articles by "Alverda Orlando"
Early History of Davenport, by
Alverda Orlando
Davenport was founded in 1868. The original town was about a mile to the north of the present location near ... [Read more]
Whales Along the Coast of Davenport, by
Alverda Orlando
From the Davenport area you can view the annual southern migration of the California gray whale. The gray whale spends ... [Read more]
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By the time the sun rose on the morning of May 3, 1877, the two bodies dangling from the Water Street Bridge were already stiff from rigor mortis. A large crowd had gathered on the banks of the San Lorenzo River to gape at the hanging corpses, victims of an ..." [More]
Excerpted from Hanging on the Water Street Bridge: A Santa Cruz Lynching by Geoffrey Dunn
