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Landslides are known to have occurred in the Santa Cruz Mountains during both the October 8, 1865, earthquake (M 6.5) ... [Read more] [Read more] [Read more] [Read more] [Read more] [Read more] [Read more] [Read more]
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In Watsonville there is an elementary school named for a teacher who once said, "I never knew a child I couldn't love."
Arminta Allison, better known as "Mintie" for most of her life, was born in 1850 in Redrock, Iowa. When she was four years old her family brought her ..." [More]
Excerpted from Mintie White, Teacher, 1850-1937 by Margaret Koch
