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Date: 1984
Source: This article is a chapter from Santa Cruz is in the Heart by Geoffrey Dunn. Capitola Book Company, 1984.
Type: ARTICLE
Date: 1995
Source: It Is Not My Intention to be Captured. Phil Reader, 1995.
Type: ARTICLE
Date: 1978
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, 5/11/78 and 7/14/78
Type: ARTICLE
Famed Black Panther leader Huey Newton was arrested in Santa Cruz County on May 11, 1978. He was charged with attempted murder after gun shots were fired during an argument at the Mediterranean Bar in Seacliff Beach. He was later acquitted on July…
Date: 1978
Type: PHOTO
Paul Woodside lived on the side of a cliff at Seacliff in 1925 (note the corn planted at the base of the cliff). He is remembered for a shoot-out with Sheriff Howard Trafton and Undersheriff Richard Rountree. All three men died after the struggle…
Date: 1925
Type: PHOTO
Thomas B. Poole, a Pajaro resident, was active as a Confederate guerrilla in California during the Civil War. He was hanged for murder on September 29, 1865.
Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO