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    The Hotel Metropole, built in 1908, was added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1979. It was demolished after being severely damaged in...
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    The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the...
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  • The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is an oceanfront amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. Founded in 1907, it is California's oldest surviving amusement...
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  • the first hotel in New York City that had running water in every room Hotel Metropole (Cincinnati, Ohio) Hotel Metropole (Santa Cruz, California), built...
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    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...
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    Mission Santa Cruz (Spanish: La Misión de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz) is a Spanish Californian mission. Located on Mission Hill, it was founded on...
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    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...
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    Santa Cruz Breakwater Lighthouse, is a lighthouse in California, United States, in the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor in Santa Cruz, California. The lighthouse...
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    Casa del Rey Hotel (House of the King) was a resort hotel in Santa Cruz, California. During World War II the hotel was converted to the Naval Convalescent...
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    Santa Cruz High School is a comprehensive public school in Santa Cruz, California which originally opened in 1897 and now serves an enrollment of about...
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    Branciforte (category History of Santa Cruz County, California)
    government of Alta California. The pueblo was established in 1797 on the eastern bluff of the San Lorenzo River, facing Mission Santa Cruz on the west side...
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    The Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium is an event and convention venue located in downtown Santa Cruz, California. It is owned by the City of Santa Cruz and...
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  • Free Radio Santa Cruz (FRSC) is an unlicensed radio station in Santa Cruz, California, United States. Founded by activists Skidmarkbob Bob, Phil Free and...
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    Avalon is the only incorporated city on Santa Catalina Island, in the California Channel Islands, and the southernmost city in Los Angeles County. The...
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    and the Giant Dipper wooden roller coaster, at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California, United States. They are among the oldest surviving...
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    surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Located in the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse at Lighthouse Point on West Cliff Drive, the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum...
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    Steamer Lane (category History of Santa Cruz County, California)
    location in Santa Cruz, California. It is just off a point on the side of cliffs in the West Cliff residential area near downtown Santa Cruz, providing...
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    Giant Dipper (category Buildings and structures in Santa Cruz County, California)
    historic wooden roller coaster located at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. The Giant Dipper, which replaced the Thompson's...
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    Kaiser Permanente Arena (category Santa Cruz, California)
    arena located in Santa Cruz, in the U.S. state of California. It has a seating capacity of 2,505 spectators. It hosts the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA...
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    Natural Bridges State Beach (category Beaches of Santa Cruz County, California)
    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...
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  • Surf City USA (category Santa Cruz, California)
    trademark inflamed a historical dispute between the California coastal cities of Huntington Beach and Santa Cruz. Both cities claimed the "Surf City" nickname...
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    building at 118 Cooper Street (at the corner of Front Street) in Santa Cruz, California was built in 1882, adjacent to the first (1866) County Court House...
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    Cowell Lime Works (category History of Santa Cruz County, California)
    The Cowell Lime Works, in Santa Cruz, California, was a manufacturing complex that quarried limestone, produced lime and other limestone products, and...
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  • Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School (category High schools in Santa Cruz County, California)
    is a co-educational, non-sectarian independent school located in Santa Cruz, California. The school educates students in grades 6–12. Established in 1994...
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    Twin Lakes State Beach (category Santa Cruz, California)
    Monterey Bay directly south of the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor Santa Cruz, in coastal Santa Cruz County, northern California. This mile-long shoreline is a popular...
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  • Metro Santa Cruz, a free-circulation weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, was published from 1994 to 2009 It was renamed the Santa Cruz Weekly...
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    The California Powder Works Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Santa Cruz, California. It is a Smith truss bridge, built across the San Lorenzo River...
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    Hinds House (category Houses in Santa Cruz County, California)
    The Hinds House is a historic building in Santa Cruz, California. It was built in 1888 and 1889 by Alfred J. Hinds and his wife Sarah. Its Victorian style...
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  • Pacific Collegiate School (category High schools in Santa Cruz County, California)
    School is a grades 7-12 charter school located on the westside of Santa Cruz, California. Currently, the number of students is about 514. The school mascot...
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    Illinois to California in 1846 and settled in Santa Cruz the following year. In 1869, Mr. Hecox was appointed keeper of the original Santa Cruz Lighthouse...
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