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The "City of Santa Cruz" painting hangs on the stairway landing near the second floor entrance to the Young People's room at the Downtown Branch.

The Santa Cruz Daily Surf reported, "the picture of the City of Santa Cruz, painted by F. L. Heath…

Date: Undated
Source: Artists in California 1786-1940.
Edan Milton Hughes. Crocker Art Museum, 2002. p. 505.

Type: ARTICLE

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* Latitude: 36.59 N
* Longitude: 122.02 W
* Area: 13.3 sq. miles
* Elevation: 20 ft. above sea level

Date: Undated
Source: Goode's World Atlas.
Skokie, IL. Rand McNally & Co., 2000.




Type: ARTICLE

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Capitola is located 4 mi / 6.4 km E of Santa Cruz at the mouth of Soquel Creek.

Area
1.6 sq. miles (rounded off to the nearest tenth of a square mile)

Latitude and Longitude
36° 59' N
121° 57' W

Date: Undated
Source: Columbia Gazetteer of North America.
Ed. by Saul B. Cohen. Columbia University Press, 2000.

Type: ARTICLE

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"On Location in Santa Cruz County" is an extensive list of films shot entirely or partially in Santa Cruz County. The time period covered is 1911 through June, 1998. There are two lists, one in alphabetical order by the film title and the other in…

Date: Undated
Type: ARTICLE

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E Clampus Vitus is a men-only organization which flourished in the California mining camps during the Gold Rush days. After many years of being dormant, it was revived in the early 1930's, and has chapters throughout the West. It has been described…

Date: Undated
Source: Men Will Be Boys: the Story of E Clampus Vitus by Lois Rather. Rather Press, 1980.

Last Days of the Late, Great State of California by Curt Gentry. Putnam, 1968.

Type: ARTICLE

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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…

Date: 1903-05-14
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
October 30, 1975

Type: ARTICLE

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Remnants of the "S.S. Palo Alto." The 435-foot ship was built of concrete by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Co. just after the end of World War I. Originally designed as a tanker, it was part of a wartime effort to reduce the use of steel and iron.…

Date: Undated
Source: Forever Facing South: The Story of the S.S. Palo Alto, the "Old Cement Ship" of Seacliff Beach." Heron, David W. Santa Cruz, CA, Otter B Books, 1991.
Type: ARTICLE

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The current Santa Cruz County Bikeways map can be downloaded from the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (SCCRTC) website. This map shows bicycle lanes, bicycle paths and alternate routes within Santa Cruz County; it also features…

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Type: ARTICLE

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List of beaches in Santa Cruz County from the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council.

Date: Undated
Type: ARTICLE

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For ordinances concerning nudity on city beaches, contact the city police department. For county beaches, call the sheriff's office. For nudity laws of state parks, check with the state parks system.



Date: Undated
Source: A list of nude/topless beaches in the Santa Cruz area can be found on the website of the Good Times.
Type: ARTICLE

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