Santa Cruz City Hall is located at 809 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Phone: 831‑420‑5010.
Neighborhoods
Antonelli Mobile Home Park
Bamboo Court
Bay Park
Baytree
Baywood
Beach Hill
Beachcomber
Bell Harbor
Blaine Street Condos
Blue And Gold
Blue and Gold Star Mobile Home Park
Brookside
Captains Court
Casa La Familia
Casitas Del Sol
Castle Estates
City Bluff
Claremont Cove
Clearview Court
Creekside
Deanza Mobile Estates
Eastmont
El Rio
Green Acres
Harbor Heights
Harbor Knolls
Harbor Oaks
Harbor Village
Heritage Landing
Homestead Park
Live Oak Square
Lower Sky Meadow Residential Historic District
Mariners Cove
Mattison Gardens
Misty Heights
Ocean Breeze
Ocean Street Terrace
Ocean View
Opal Cliffs
Pacific Family Park
Pacific Terrace
Park Harbor
Piedmont Court
Pine Street Commons
Pleasant Acres
Pleasure Point
Ranchito Mobile Home Park
River Run
River Street Place
Rodeo Estates
Rodeo Gulch
Roundtree
San Lorenzo Villas
Santa Cruz Villa
Sea Haven
Seabright Villas
Shangri La
Shelter Lagoon
Shoreline Estates
Snug Harbor
Sorrento Oaks
Sorrento Park
Southview Terrace
Swan Lake Gardens
The Carmel
Towers Place
Trailer Haven
Villa Nueva
Villa Patrizia
Villa Santa Cruz
Voyage West
West Cliff Villas
Westlake
Westlkae Condos
Yacht Habor Mobile Home Park
Yacht Harbor Cove
Yacht Harbor Manor
Santa Cruz was incorporated as a town in 1866; it was chartered as a city in 1876. It is the seat of government for Santa Cruz County which was created as one of California's 27 original counties in 1850. By the turn of the 20th century, the economy of Santa Cruz flourished through logging, agriculture, commercial fishing and as a prominent resort destination. [1]
Santa Cruz faces south across Monterey Bay from its perch beside a broad, curving beach at the edge of the timbered Santa Cruz Mountains. When in 1769 the Portola party planted crops on the bank of the river which they named the San Lorenzo, they noticed redwoods and "roses of Castille," but no Indians. A reproduction of the Mission Santa Cruz, on Emmet Street facing the Upper Plaza, was built in 1931 about 75 yards from the old site. The original structure, built in 1793, suddenly collapsed with a loud crash a month after an earthquake had weakened the walls in 1857. [2]
City of Santa Cruz, History, www.cityofsantacruz.com, accessed November, 2013.
Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration, California: A Guide to the Golden State, American Guide Series, Hastings House, Publishers, New York, 1939.