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A Howling Wilderness: The Summit Road Area - Santa Cruz Mountains, by
Stephen Michael Payne
Situated between the Town of Los Gatos and the City of Santa Cruz, in the central coast counties of California, ... [Read more]
Mountain Charley, by
John V. Young
Most colorful of Santa Cruz Mountain characters of the pioneer days was Mountain Charley McKiernan, one of the first white ... [Read more]
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In the city of Santa Cruz (California) of the 1850's, the downtown started seeing a growth in commercial type buildings; boarding houses, shops, restaurants, drug stores, tanneries, etc. Though fires were not uncommon, they rarely destroyed more than one piece of property at a time.
In 1857, the Santa Cruz ..." [More]
Excerpted from More Than 100 Years of Service: A Brief History of the Santa Cruz Fire Department by Jerry Ochoa
