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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "Summit area"
A Howling Wilderness: The Summit Road Area - Santa Cruz Mountains, by
Stephen Michael Payne
Situated between the Town of Los Gatos and the City of Santa Cruz, in the central coast counties of California, ... [Read more]
Resorts in the Summit Road Area, 1850-1906, by
Stephen Michael Payne
Hotel de Redwood, the first hotel in the Summit area of the Santa Cruz Mountains, was built in 1859, at ... [Read more]
The Rise and Fall of Holy City, by
John V. Young
Holy City, on the old Santa Cruz Highway a little north of the Summit, was a Johnny-come-lately to the ranks ... [Read more]
Skyland and Highland, by
John V. Young
An attempt to find a name signifying a place higher than high accounts for the present name of Skyland, an ... [Read more]
Felling the Giants, by
Stephen Michael Payne
The first redwood tree (Sequoia Sempervirens) seen by a white man was on the Corrallitos Creek, in what is now ... [Read more]
A Howling Wilderness - Selected Bibliography, by
Stephen Michael Payne
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Education in the Summit Road Area: 1850-1906, by
Stephen Michael Payne
The devotion of the Summit settlers to their children's education was evidenced by the number of school districts formed over ... [Read more]
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At 2 1/2 million boxes of apples in 1909, the Pajaro Valley was producing and shipping more apples than any area in the world. For a brief time, Watsonville's annual apple show was a popular celebration drawing statewide attention and eventually opening in a world's fair.
Watsonville mostly ignored the ..." [More]
Excerpted from The Hall that Apples Built by Ross Eric Gibson
