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Known for. Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Fred Wilder Swanton (1862–1940) was an American entrepreneur and real estate developer who served as mayor of Santa Cruz, California from 1927 until 1933. He promoted the expansion of Santa Cruz as a beach resort city. The seaside resort he established in 1904 remains today as the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk .
The Santa Cruz Wharf is a wharf in Santa Cruz, California, United States, known for fishing, boat tours, viewing sea lions, dining, nightlife and gift shops. The current wharf was built in 1914, the last of six built on the site, and is operated by the City of Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation Office. The wharf is situated between Main Beach ...
Natural Bridges State Beach. / 36.95250°N 122.05750°W / 36.95250; -122.05750. Natural Bridges State Beach is a 65-acre (26 ha) California state park in Santa Cruz, California, in the United States. The park features a natural bridge across a section of the beach and a eucalyptus grove provides habitat for monarch butterflies.
History Santa Cruz Swimming Baths at the Boardwalk, Pacific Novelty Company Postcards, circa 1910. Fred W. Swanton formed the Santa Cruz Beach, Cottage, and Tent City Corporation in 1903 and the following year, the City of Santa Cruz granted permission for commercial buildings to be built. On 14 June 1904, the Neptune Casino opened with an ...
Santa Cruz, California. / 36.97194°N 122.02639°W / 36.97194; -122.02639. Santa Cruz ( Spanish for "Holy Cross") is the largest city and the county seat of Santa Cruz County, in Northern California. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 62,956. [10]
Rancho Refugio was a 12,147-acre (49.16 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Cruz County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to María Candida, Jacinta, and María de los Angeles Castro. [1] The grant extended along the Pacific coast from the western city limit of Santa Cruz to Laguna Creek, a border shared with ...
History [ edit] Marianne's Ice Cream was opened by Thomas and Lenore Becker in 1947 and named for their daughters, Mary-Lee and Annie. The shop had gone through an unknown seller before a real estate agent approached Sam and Dorothy Lieberman about entering the ice cream industry using the building, the Lieberman's agreed and bought the ...
Eddie Ritz, Palm Beach Post. June 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM. The wait is over and the results are in, The USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Award for the Best Ice Cream Shop has named The Boardwalk ...