Out on the fringe of Watsonville Slough, 0.5 miles from the nearest road, the Santa Cruz Railroad Company established its least known and mo...

What is Santa Cruz County? It is perhaps a strange question since it seems easy to answer: Santa Cruz County is an administrative division o...

Santa Cruz County has many towns and villages that found their footing once the railroad arrived. Most of the communities along the North Co...

High above Mountain Charlie Gulch only 0.4 miles from Virginia to the east and 0.6 miles from Zayante to the west sat unassuming Tank Sidi...

Not all of the stops along the Southern Pacific Railroad route through the Santa Cruz Mountains were there from the beginning. Indeed, some ...

A mule cart at the Logan quarry, c. 1905, demonstrating the likely gravel quarrying operation at Gravel Pit No. 1 around the same time. [G...