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Crusading Women: Santa Cruz was a Hotbed of Suffrage Fight, by
Ross Eric Gibson
Women were granted the right to vote 75 years ago under the 19th amendment, but the fight for that right ... [Read more]
The History of the Santa Cruz Public Library System: Part 2-- 1881-1904, by
Margaret Souza
When the Library was transferred to the City of Santa Cruz, there were about three thousand volumes in the library. ... [Read more]
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On May 14, 1903, Sarah Agnes Cowell, the youngest daughter of Henry Cowell, was killed in a buggy accident at the Cowell Ranch. Sarah and the ranch housekeeper were riding in the family buggy along the upper kiln road on the Cowell ranch (now the campus of University of California ..." [More]
Excerpted from Cowell Ghost by Santa Cruz Sentinel
