"Way Back When" - 106 years ago to said date, an earthquake hit California, leaving the Santa Cruz Mission "a mass of ruins," according to the Pacific Sentinel
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Highlighting Eliza W. Farnahm's "California In-Doors and Out"
- Outlines a plan to bring 100+ women of 25 years of age from the East Coast to CA, to "raise the moral tone of the miners and merchants already here."
- Plan for these women to bring a certificate of good character, intelligence and efficiency
- Farhnam was unable to plan accordingly and accommodate these women when the time came, so she traveled with her sons to investigate a Santa Cruz estate acquired and left by from late husband.

"Since this was before the time of a wharf in Santa Cruz she was carried through the surf on the shoulders of a sailor and their boxes and household effects were landed in the same manner or by small boats, many of which were overturned and the contents lost."

- Eliza and a friend Georgina Bruce built up the house on their own to make it liveable
- House was built with 5 gables
- Farnham holds the distinguished title of being Santa Cruz' first author
- Gave lectures in SC, San Francisco, and Watsonville on Spiritual Philosophy; the position of the church at the present time; slavery; women's rights; Lynch law and Vigilantes
- After marrying and divorcing, went to New York to publish her book "California, In-Doors and Out"
- In it, expressed her desire to move women from the east coast to the west as a failure, claiming that "the role of pioneer women was nearly unbearable, filled with privation and endless labor for a meager existence, and women of culture and learning would be sacrificed on the altar of greed and degradation."

- Eliza died of tuberculosis at age 48 after suffering a heavy cold as a nurse at the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War.

- Piece on E. Farnham written by Jeannette Rowland