Two articles on the earliest history of European settlement of Santa Cruz County, both of unknown origin. Chronologically details which and where Spanish settlers uncovered and built upon the land, and unfolds into American colonization up to 1875.

Notables: Francisco de Lasuen, Alonzo Isidro Salazar, Baldomero Lopez, Mission la Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz, Alta California, Francisco Palou, Gaspar de Portola, Father Crespi, sequoia sempervirens, palo colorado, Diego de Borica, Moraga, Alberto Cordaba, Villa Branciforte, Andres Quintana, Hippolyte de Bouchard, Thomas A Catesby Jones, Juan Alvarado, Josiah Belden, Thomas O Larkin, Thomas Fallon, William Blackburn, Swasey Todd Company, Richard C Kirby, Paul Sweet, Squabble Hollow, Georgiana Bruce Kirby, Adna A Hecox / Adna Hecox / A A Hecox, Elihu Anthony, Isaac Graham, Isaac E Davis, Albion P Jordan, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Duncan McPherson, Hiram Daniel Scott, Rancho San Agustin, Pope House, Pocket Exchange Guide of San Francisco of 1875