Santa Cruz City
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.