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"None Can Compare": When the lime industry ruled Santa Cruz County

Date: 2008-Fall
Source: Santa Cruz Magazine, v3n3, p 72-74.
Type: ARTICLE

Henry Cowell: The Enigmatic Figure of Santa Cruz History

Date: 2010-Winter
Source: Santa Cruz Magazine, v5n4, p. 60-62.
Type: ARTICLE

https://fishbox.santacruzpl.org/media/pdf/local_history_articles/AR-197.pdf

Coast Dairies Property: A Land Use History

Excerpted from Coast Dairies Long-Term Resource Protection and Use Plan

Date: 2001
Source: Coast Dairies Long-Term Resource Protection and Use Plan: Draft Existing Conditions Report for the Coast Dairies Property, Section 1.0.San Francisco, CA: Environmental Science Associates, 2001.
Type: ARTICLE

https://fishbox.santacruzpl.org/media/pdf/local_history_articles/AR-165.pdf

Limestone

Date: 1943-01
Source: Hubbard, Henry G. 'Mines and Mineral Resources of Santa Cruz County.' "California Journal of Mines and Geology," January 1943. pp. 44-46.
Type: ARTICLE

https://fishbox.santacruzpl.org/media/pdf/local_history_articles/AR-166.pdf

Lime

Date: 1943-01
Source: Hubbard, Henry G. 'Mines and Mineral Resources of Santa Cruz County.' "California Journal of Mines and Geology," January 1943. pp. 43-44.
Type: ARTICLE

https://fishbox.santacruzpl.org/media/pdf/local_history_articles/AR-204.pdf

Henry Cowell and His Family (1819-1955)

Date: 1989
Source: Henry Cowell and His Family (1819--1955) published by the S.H. Cowell Foundation, 1989.
Type: ARTICLE

The Laguna Limekilns: Bonny Doon

Date: 1996
Source: Excerpted from "The Laguna Limekilns: Bonny Doon." [Bonny Doon, CA]: Lime Light, 1996.
Type: ARTICLE

https://fishbox.santacruzpl.org/media/pdf/local_history_articles/AR-176.pdf

Bonny Doon Property Owners Map of 1905

Date: 1996
Source: ‘The Laguna Limekilns’: Bonny Doon. Robert W. Piwarzyk. Bonny Doon: Lime Light, 1996, pp. A-4-1, A-4-3.
Type: ARTICLE

http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/uploads/0000/0084.jpg

Quarrying rocks

Quarrying rocks. [Quarrying limestone was done by hand labor on the Cowell Ranch. Are these men Henry Cowell Lime and Cement company employees, mining limestone--or perhaps bituminous rock-- on the Cowell Ranch?]

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/uploads/0000/0095.jpg

Henry Cowell Lime and Cement Company Ox Teams

Henry Cowell Lime and Cement Company ox teams hauling rocks [limestone? bituminous rock?] from the Cowell Ranch quarry.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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