The Felton Toll Gate House
2019-09-22
By Lisa Robinson In 1870, Feltonite Otis Ashely complained in a letter to the Santa Cruz Sentinel: “We have a county grog-shop at the toll gate on the San Lorenzo Road. We would inquire what runs that institution? The Supervisors compel us to pay one hundred dollars a month forRead More →
The Sayant and Achistaca
2019-06-21
by Lisa Robinson Before contact in 1769, the Ohlone people lived and managed the land here. Their total population once numbered 10,000 or more with many villages in and around Santa Cruz. Village populations ranged from 50 to 500. In the smaller seasonal villages, the villagers would take advantage ofRead More →
One Hundred Years Ago
2019-04-27
By Lisa Robinson Perhaps the last bears at “Big Trees” [now Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park]. In 1919, film star Nell Shipman and a party of actors visited the Big Trees on their way to Seattle. She had recently starred in “God’s Country and the Woman” and “Back to God’sRead More →