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The Works Progress Administration (1935-1943) was a U.S. government agency created during the Great Depression to provide jobs for unemployed ... [Read more] "Santa Cruz was originally incorporated as a city in 1866 under a special act of the State Legislature. With the ... [Read more]
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Holy City, on the old Santa Cruz Highway a little north of the Summit, was a Johnny-come-lately to the ranks of ghost towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and is the only one that still looks like a movie version of a ghost town, lacking only tumbleweeds and a deserted ..." [More]
Excerpted from The Rise and Fall of Holy City by John V. Young
