Logging operations in the hills above Watsonville were a slower affair than similar harvesting efforts in the San Lorenzo Valley and along A...

The story of the Union Mill & Lumber Company shares its origin with the Alpine Lumber Company in that both began with Hubbard Wilson McK...

Now you can hear it! Or watch it! Rancho Soquel Augmentation still had thousands of acres of unharvested old growth redwood tree...

William White Waddell was one of Santa Cruz County’s most successful early capitalists. Born in Kentucky on January 31, 1818, he moved to Le...

The Alpine Lumber Company was the last in a series of lumber ventures in the Santa Cruz Mountains run by Andrew Dallas Duffey. Duffey was bo...