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Santa Cruz County History - Articles
Browsing Local History Articles by "Margaret Koch"
They Built a League and Gallery, by
Margaret Koch
Santa Cruz had art long before it had an Art League and a Gallery. [Read more]
Calreta Court/ Piedmont Court - 260 High Street, by
Margaret Koch
This impressive Mission Revival apartment house was built in 1912 with William Bray as architect. It was called Piedmont Court, ... [Read more]
The Flatiron Building, Pacific Avenue and Front Street, by
Margaret Koch
Hugo Hihn, brother of Frederick A. Hihn, had the Flatiron Building constructed in 1859-60, of bricks made right in Santa ... [Read more]
Howden's Castle, by
Margaret Koch
Robert Howden's Ben Lomond home was his castle, and his stone castle was his home. He called himself an "everyday ... [Read more]
The Octagon, by
Margaret Koch
On March 11, 1882, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors began advertising for plans for a "Hall of Records" ... [Read more]
Artists Frank and Lillian [Heath], by
Margaret Koch
Frank L. Heath courted Lillian Dake Storey during painting trips around Santa Cruz County back in the 1890s. [Read more]
Chronological List of Santa Cruz County Public Schools, by
Margaret Koch
The following list is an attempt to give the reader an idea of the chronology of public schools that have ... [Read more]
Mintie White, Teacher, 1850-1937, by
Margaret Koch
In Watsonville there is an elementary school named for a teacher who once said, "I never knew a child I ... [Read more]
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For almost a score of years the town had slumbered in obscurity--and blessed contentment. Some time before that, it had been a slumbering metropolis with a sawdust ozone, "Whiskey Row," pay days and the red tinged nights that follow. But as the trees fell and were converted into marketable commodity ..." [More]
Excerpted from Us Folks on the Film: A California Mountain Town that has Gone Stark Movie-Mad by Earle Snell
