An article (of no known origin) chronologically tracing the history of Santa Cruz, beginning in the earliest Spanish colonization of the 1760s and 1770s. It ends with excerpts from a tourism guide from 1875 detailing what these monumental changes have amounted to.

Notables: Francisco Palou, Gaspar de Portola Expedition, Juan Crespi, Francisco de Lasuen, Alonzo Isidro Salazar, Baldomero Lopez, Mission la Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz / Mission Santa Cruz, Marquis de Branciforte, Diego de Borica, Moraga, Concepcion, Alberto Cordaba, Andres Quintana, Hippolyte de Bouchard, bullfighting, Thomas A Catesby Jones, Juan Alvarado, Josiah Belden, Thomas O Larkin / Thomas Larkin, Thomas Fallon, William Blackburn, Richard C Kirby, Paul Sweet, Georgiana Bruce Kirby / Georgiana Kirby, Adna A Hecox / Adna Hecox, Elihu Anthony, Isaac Graham, Isaac E Davis / Isaac Davis, Albion P Jordan / Albion Jordan, Hiram Daniel Scott / Hiram Scott, San Agustin Rancho, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Duncan McPherson, Pope House, Mission Hill School, Santa Cruz Library, Pocket Exchange Guide of San Francisco of 1875, Santa Cruz Venetian Water Carnival, Knight's Opera House, Otto's Hall, Lady of Lyons