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A cabinet containing Laura Hecox's shell collection. Laura Hecox, the lightkeeper, turned one room of the lighthouse into a small museum. In 1904, she donated her collections to the City of Santa Cruz. Out of her collections grew the present Santa…

Date: 1887
Type: PHOTO

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The Santa Cruz Lighthouse.

Date: 1880's
Type: PHOTO

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The Santa Cruz lighthouse as seen from the ocean.

Date: Early 1880's
Type: PHOTO

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Cabinets containing the collection of marine life and minerals that belonged to Laura Hecox, the lightkeeper. One room in the lighthouse housed the collection and served as a small museum for visitors.

Date: 1887
Type: PHOTO

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The Castle at Castle Beach (Seabright Beach), at the foot of Pilkington, Mott and Cypress Streets. The Castle was built as a bathhouse by James Pilkington in 1899-1900. When Conrad Scholl took over the business in 1918, the Castle became known as the…

Date: 1950's
Type: PHOTO

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The entrance to the Court of the Mysteries on Fair Avenue, as it appeared from the street in 1996. The structure was started in the 1930's by two brothers, Kenneth Kitchen and Raymond Kitchen.

Date: April 1996
Type: PHOTO

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The Town Clock with the sculpture, Collateral Damage, in front. When the clock was reconstructed in 1976, the new base was built over the existing Fred Morris Memorial Fountain. The peace sculpture was placed in the area near the Clock in 1995.

Date: March 2002
Type: PHOTO

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The Town Clock. Santa Cruz City Council declared the Town Clock tower a historical landmark on October 23, 1979.

Date: March 2002
Type: PHOTO

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The Town Clock at the convergence of Water Street and Pacific Avenue. The brick base and the restoration of the Clock were the City's bicentennial project in 1976. The 1899 clock tower and 1900 clockworks had been in storage since 1964.

Date: March 2002
Type: PHOTO

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The town clock stopped at 5:04 p.m. on October 17, 1989

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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