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The first reference to a jail in Santa Cruz was on Mission Hill where Emmett and School Streets are presently ... [Read more]

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The City of Santa Cruz received its first charter from the State of California in 1876. The charter specified that the City would be governed an elected body consisting of a Mayor and a four-member Common Council.

The Mayoral Historical listing was revised [by the S.C. City Clerk's Office] in ..." [More]

Excerpted from Common Councils and Mayors, 1876--1906