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Pino Alto: County Home of the William T. Sesnon Family, by
Josephine Clifford McCrackin
To hesitate, is to be lost. I wanted to claim that this beautiful home belonged to Santa Cruz; hesitated a ... [Read more]
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Lumber: The enormous stands of virgin timber found in what would become Santa Cruz County attracted entrepreneurs to the area as early as 1840 when a French Canadian, Francisco Lajeunesse and two Americans, Isaac Graham and Henry Neale made attempts to acquire Rancho Zayante. Graham, a trapper and rifleman, ..." [More]
Excerpted from Industrial Development: Lumber, Lime and cement, Fishing by Susan Lehmann
