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Santa Cruz County History - Articles
Browsing Local History Articles tagged "farming"
The first 50 years of statehood witnessed continued slow and fitful development on the North Coast. Settlers struggled up the ... [Read more]
Santa Cruz Owes Site to Spud Rush, by
Ross Eric Gibson
The clock tower marks the heart of Santa Cruz. But this is hardly an ideal place for a downtown, and ... [Read more]
Dairying in Santa Cruz, by
Isabel H. Raymond
Among the astonishingly varied resources of the tract of country known as Santa Cruz County,-a little Cosmos in itself, one ... [Read more]
Large oaks from little acorns grow, a true and an oft repeated saying, applies in the fullness of its meaning ... [Read more]
Planting Potatoes, by
Eliza W. Farnham
The great labor of seed-time, in which Geordie and I had yet to bear our part, was the potato planting, ... [Read more]
There were few houses on Mission St. other than farm houses. There were pastures on both sides. The road was ... [Read more]
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For more than 60 years, Fredrick A. Hihn was the dominant figure in the commercial, political, and social life of Santa Cruz County, and was instrumental in shaping the community into the great body it is today.
Hihn was born in Germany on August 16, 1829. While still in his ..." [More]
Excerpted from A Walk Through Time: Fredrick A. Hihn by Janet Krassow and Randy Krassow
