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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "hanging"
Hanging on the Water Street Bridge: A Santa Cruz Lynching, by
Geoffrey Dunn
By the time the sun rose on the morning of May 3, 1877, the two bodies dangling from the Water ... [Read more]
A Walk Through Time: Amos Lunt, by
Janet Krassow and Randy Krassow
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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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A native Scotsman, John Burns permanently brought part of his homeland to Santa Cruz County. Burns married Miss Margaret Oswald at Falkirk, and had five children when he moved to Canada in 1852. Ten years later, he and his son Thomas settled in the mountains to the north of Santa ..." [More]
Excerpted from A Walk Through Time: John Burns by Janet Krassow and Randy Krassow
