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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "cottages"

Early History of the Carmelita Cottages: The Owners, Part 1, by Rick Hyman

Widows, sea captains, relatives, music, jilted wives, and long-tenure describe the famous owners of the Carmelita Cottages. The property is ... [Read more]

Early History of the Carmilita Cottages: The Owners, Part 2, by Rick Hyman

Roberts' ownership tenure of the Cottages property was extremely brief, selling it and Lot 7 behind it to fellow sea ... [Read more]

Early History of the Carmelita Cottages: Notes and Bibliography, by Rick Hyman

According to the dates given in John Chase's Sidewalk Companion only 917-919 Third Street (1870-71) and possibly the Terrace Court ... [Read more]

Early History of the Carmelita Cottages: Owners of the Carmelita Cottages Property, by Rick Hyman

Owners of the Carmelita Cottages Property [Read more]

Early History of the Carmelita Cottages: The Tenants, by Rick Hyman

Why and exactly when the name Carmelita Cottages emerged has not yet been discovered. The name was first applied in ... [Read more]

History of the Carmelita Cottages, by Rick Hyman

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Saving Carmelita Cottages, by Rick Hyman

California's newest coastal hostel opens soon [1993] in Santa Cruz, in a Victorian cottage nestled under mature trees in a ... [Read more]

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PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND THE SAND PACKERS.

The secessionist movement and the civil war that followed divided not only the United states, but every county, township, city, and village within it's boundaries. Santa Cruz county was no different. By far, the bulk of the citizenry remained loyal to the ..." [More]

Excerpted from Copperheads, Secesh Men, and Confederate Guerillas: Pro-Confederate Activities in Santa Cruz County during the Civil War by Phil Reader