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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "Claus Spreckles"
Aptos History: A Look Back at Centuries of Mid-County History, by
John Hibble
Aptos History: A Look Back at Centuries of Mid-County History [Read more]
The Spreckels Era in Rio Del Mar, 1872--1922, by
Allen Collins
The ranch lands Claus Spreckels purchased in 1872 for about $8l,000 comprised almost all of today's Rio Del Mar (ca. ... [Read more]
The making of beet sugar is preeminently the industry of Watsonville. Some years ago Claus Spreckels, the famous Sugar King, ... [Read more]
Back in the days when the roads leading into town were dirt and narrow, a series of piers lined 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
