Santa Cruz .
Santa Cruz Flag of Santa Cruz Flag Official seal of Santa Cruz Official logo of Santa Cruz Location in Santa Cruz County and the state of California Location in Santa Cruz County and the state of California Santa Cruz is positioned in the US Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz Santa Cruz (/ s nt kru z/, Spanish: Holy Cross) is the governmental center of county and biggest city of Santa Cruz County, California.
Enumeration Bureau estimated Santa Cruz's populace at 62,864.
Santa Cruz is known for its moderate climate, the natural beauty of its coastline, redwood forests, alternative improve lifestyles, and socially liberal leanings.
It is also home to the University of California, Santa Cruz, a premier research institution and educational hub, as well as the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an oceanfront amusement park operating continuously since 1907.
The present-day site of Santa Cruz was the locale of Spanish settlement beginning in 1791, including Mission Santa Cruz and the pueblo of Branciforte.
The City of Santa Cruz was incorporated in 1866 and chartered in April 1876. Important early industries encompassed lumber, gunpowder, lime and agriculture.
Late in the 19th century, Santa Cruz established itself as a beach resort community.
Prior to the arrival of Spanish soldiers, missionaries and colonists in the late 18th century, Santa Cruz County was home to the Awaswas Native Americans.
The misnomer Ohlone, while often used to describe the native citizens of the Santa Cruz area, is a generalized name for the many diverse groups that lived in the region stretching from San Francisco to the Monterey Bay.
Awaswa was one of the eight Coastanoan languages and made up a tribe of Native Americas living in Western Santa Cruz County, stretching slightly north of Davenport to Rio Del Mar.
Today, two of the Coastanoan tribes, the Awaswa citizens 'missionized' in Santa Cruz and the Mutsun citizens 'missionized' at San Juan Batista, have joined together as the Amah Mutsan Tribal Band in an accomplishment to protect and maintain the authentic and distinct cultural history and practices. In 1791, Father Fermin Lasuen continued the use of Crespi's name when he declared the establishment of La Mision de la Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz (also known as Mission Santa Cruz) for the conversion of the Awaswas of Chatu-Mu and encircling Ohlone villages. Santa Cruz was the twelfth mission to be established in California.
Villa de Branciforte later lost its civic status, and in 1905 the region was took in into the City of Santa Cruz.
The name didn't catch on, however, and later reverted to Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz became a town/city in 1866.
The Santa Cruz mission was one of the first missions to be secularized.
Santa Cruz was one of the first missions to be abandoned and private residencies were assembled on the property. The Native Americans of Santa Cruz are known to be the Costanonan citizens .
After the mission era, the number of native citizens in the Bay Area, including Santa Cruz, began to decrease.
Elihu Anthony (1818 1905) appeared in Santa Cruz, California in 1847 and opened many firsts for the town/city of Santa Cruz; including the first Protestant Church, the first blacksmith foundry, he assembled the first wharf and was the first postmaster. He advanced the first commercial blocks in downtown Santa Cruz with his early blacksmith foundry positioned at the corner of Pacific Street and Mission Street. Anthony with Frederick A.
Hihn, assembled the first waterworks network in the city. The establishment of barns lines in Santa Cruz in 1876 until 1881 with the Santa Cruz Railroad, brought workers to Santa Cruz and provided market access for the city's timber, leather and limestone industries. A powder foundry assembled on the San Lorenzo River upstream of Santa Cruz used charcoal and powder kegs produced from small-town forests.
Santa Cruz was difficult hit by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
It was also hit by ocean surges caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, wherein the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor sustained an estimated $10 million of damage, with another $4 million of damage to docked boats there. Founded in 1976, The Resource Center for Nonviolence is one of the earliest and most centrally positioned non-profit organizations committed to political and civil activism in Santa Cruz County. The center is "dedicated to promoting the principles of nonviolent civil change and enhancing the character of life and human dignity". In 1998, the Santa Cruz improve declared itself a Nuclear-free zone, and in 2003, the Santa Cruz City Council became the first City Council in the U.S.
To denounce the Iraq War. The City Council of Santa Cruz also issued a proclamation opposing the USA PATRIOT Act. As a center of liberal and progressive activism, Santa Cruz became one of the first metros/cities to approve marijuana for medicinal uses.
Santa Cruz was home to the second above-ground medical marijuana club in the world when the Santa Cruz Cannabis Buyers Club opened its doors in April 1995.
Santa Cruz also became one of the first metros/cities in California to test the state's medical marijuana laws in court after the arrest of Valerie Corral and Mike Corral, framers of the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, by the DEA. The case was ruled in favor of the growers.
In 2005, the Santa Cruz City Council established a town/city government office to assist inhabitants with obtaining medical marijuana. On November 7, 2006, the voters of Santa Cruz passed Measure K by a vote of 64 36 percent.
Measure K made adult non-medical cannabis offenses the lowest before ity for law enforcement; this does not apply to cultivation, distribution, sale in public, sale to minors, or driving under the influence. The measure requests the Santa Cruz town/city clerk send letters annually to state and federal delegates advocating reform of cannabis laws. Notable feminist activists Nikki Craft and Ann Simonton resided in Santa Cruz, where they formed the "Praying Mantis Brigade".
This compilation of activists organized the "Myth California Pageant" in the 1980s protesting "the objectification of women and the glorification of the beauty myth." Myth California was staged concurrently with the Miss California pageant held in Santa Cruz since the 1920s.
The protests ran for nine years and eventually contributed to the Miss California pageant leaving Santa Cruz. Simonton established and coordinates the non-profit group "Media Watch" which monitors and critiques media images of women and ethnic minorities. Beginning in 1983 Santa Cruz has hosted an annual Take Back the Night candlelight vigil, rally, march, and protest focusing on the copy of violence against women. Occupy Santa Cruz formed as an autonomous organization in solidarity with the around the world Occupy movement, a broad-based protest against perceived economic and civil inequality.
Occupy Santa Cruz was most active in the fall of 2011, and encompassed over a thousand active members at its peak. The organization attained most of its publicity when members occupied an empty bank building owned by Wells Fargo. and occupied the building for 72 hours. 11 criminal charges were filed, at least seven of which have since been dropped. Santa Cruz, California Santa Cruz has mild weather throughout the year, appreciateing a warm-summer mediterranean climate characterized by cool, wet winters and warm, mostly dry summers.
Climate data for Santa Cruz, California (1981 2010 normals) The principal industries of Santa Cruz are agriculture, tourism, education (UC Santa Cruz) and high technology.
Santa Cruz is a center of the organic agriculture movement, and many specialty products as well as housing the command posts of California Certified Organic Farmers.
Tourist attractions include the classic Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk on the beach, the redwood forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains above the town, and Monterey Bay, which is protected as a marine sanctuary.
1 University of California at Santa Cruz 7,693 2 County of Santa Cruz 2,351 3 City of Santa Cruz 776 5 Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 347 The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Santa Cruz had a populace of 59,946.
The ethnic makeup of Santa Cruz was 44,661 (74.5%) White, 1,071 (1.8%) African American, 440 (0.7%) Native American, 4,591 (7.7%) Asian, 108 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 5,673 (9.5%) from other competitions, and 3,402 (5.7%) from two or more competitions.
Santa Cruz persistentlyendures the highest property crime rates per capita for medium and large-sized metros/cities in the state of California, in addition to some of the highest violent crime rates in the state of California for medium and large-sized cities. Additionally, Santa Cruzendures some of the highest rates of homelessness in the US, with 9,041 estimated homeless in Santa Cruz county in 2011, approximately 3.5% of the total county population. with over 52% of homeless experiencing some form of mental illness, including clinical depression or PTSD and over 26% suffering unspecified mental illness. Additionally, 38% of homeless surveyed in Santa Cruz county in 2011 experienced drug and/or alcohol dependency. In recent years, citizen groups such as Take Back Santa Cruz, established in 2009, have lobbied town/city government and officials to address this enhance safety crisis that has gathered nationwide attention. In the California State Legislature, Santa Cruz is in the 17th Senate District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning, and in the 29th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Mark Stone. In the United States House of Representatives, Santa Cruz is split between California's 18th congressional district, represented by Democrat Anna Eshoo, and California's 20th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jimmy Panetta. Santa Cruz has five sister metros/cities in other nations, metros/cities chosen to strengthen global connections.
A volunteer committee of people organizes cultural exchange opportunities, humanitarian projects, and commercial ties between Santa Cruz and its sister cities. Spain Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain was a former sister city. State Routes 1 and 17 are the chief roads in and out of Santa Cruz, with the latter being the major route north to San Jose and the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Geographically constrained between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Monterey Bay, the narrow transit corridor served by SR 1, California's Pacific Coast Highway,endures excessive congestion.
Big Trees Railroad excursion train on Chestnut St., Santa Cruz The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District provides bus service throughout Santa Cruz County.
Amtrak serves Santa Cruz via Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach from rail connections at Amtrak San Jose Diridon Train Station directed by the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District by way of a partnership with the Amtrak, Capitol Corridor, and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
Greyhound Lines bus service is another, albeit less generally used, option for visiting Santa Cruz.
Most primary roads have bike lanes, and wide bike lanes were recently installed on Beach Street, near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
The Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway operates diesel-electric tourist trains between the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Roaring Camp in Felton, through Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, with its famous Redwood Grove walking trail.
The Santa Cruz Railroad was a narrow gauge barns that directed between Santa Cruz and Pajaro, California. Santa Cruz is home to a several notable educational establishments, including Soquel High School, Aptos High School, Harbor High School, Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School (a undertaking 6 12 private school), Pacific Collegiate School (a undertaking 7 12 charter school), Cypress Charter High School, Santa Cruz Montessori (an 18 months to 15 years private school) Monterey Coast Preparatory (also a 6 12 private school), Santa Cruz High School, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, (which is positioned in close-by Aptos and holds some classes inside Santa Cruz city), and Five Branches University.
By the 1860s, Pacific Avenue had turn into the chief street of downtown Santa Cruz, and remains so today.
Downtown Santa Cruz homes a range of storefronts and businesses.
Consequently, Pacific Avenue serves as an supply for the creative and unique culture that Santa Cruz possesses.
Santa Cruz is home to a several state parks and beaches, including Lighthouse Field State Beach, Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, Twin Lakes State Beach, and Seabright State Beach.
Santa Cruz has three greenbelt open space properties along the town/city limits, including Arana Gulch, Moore Creek, and Pogonip. There are also five improve parks and eighteen neighborhood parks.
Pogonip Open Space is positioned adjoining to the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The climate of Santa Cruz is, however, too warm for that type of ice formation, and none of the native Californian citizens s are Shoshonean.
Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve is a marine protected region off the coast at the northern edge of Santa Cruz.
Most of the rest of the coastline of Santa Cruz lies adjoining to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
Santa Cruz is well known for watersports such as sailing, diving, swimming, stand up paddle boarding, paddling, and is regarded as one of the best spots in the world for surfing. It is the home of O'Neill Wetsuits and Santa Cruz Surfboards, as well as Santa Cruz Skateboards and Santa Cruz Bicycles.
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is California's earliest amusement park and a designated State Historic Landmark.
Looff Carousel and 1924 Giant Dipper roller coaster, the Boardwalk has been owned and directed by the Santa Cruz Seaside Company since 1915. In one of the first presented descriptions of surfing in California, three Hawaiian princes, Prince David Kawananakoa, Prince Edward Abnel Keli iahonui and Prince Jonah Kalaniana ole, surfed on locally milled redwood boards at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in July 1885. Santa Cruz has 11 world-class surf breaks, including the point breaks over modern bottoms near Steamer Lane and Pleasure Point, which problematic some of the best surfing waves in the world. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum at Steamer Lane is staffed by docents from the Santa Cruz Surfing Club who have surfed Santa Cruz waves since the 1930s.
Santa Cruz hosts a several surf contests drawing global participants each year, including the O'Neill Cold Water Classic, the International Longboard Association contest, and many others.
In addition to its reputation in surfing and skateboarding, Santa Cruz is known for other sports such as disc ultimate and disc golf.
De Laveaga was the disc golf and discathon venue for the WFDF-sanctioned World Disc Games overall event held in Santa Cruz in July 2005. In recent years, Santa Cruz has turn into home to a several minor-league and amateur sports teams.
The Santa Cruz Warriors (an NBA D-League team), and Santa Cruz Derby Girls (an amateur roller derby league) regularly play games in the Kaiser Permanente Arena. Santa Cruz has a number of cultural establishments and other attractions, including the University of California, Santa Cruz, Arboretum, Mission Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the Santa Cruz Art League (which includes an art loggia, theater, and classroom), the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum (housed in a lighthouse near Steamer Lane) and the Tannery Arts Center. Santa Cruz County Symphony Founded in 1958, the Santa Cruz County Symphony is a fully experienced ensemble of 65 members which presents an annual concert series at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and the Mello Center in Watsonville.
Santa Cruz Film Festival An annual event for autonomous filmmakers to share their work with film enthusiasts Santa Cruz Pride The annual parade is a celebration of sexual orientation and range in Santa Cruz, held on the Pacific Avenue mall. First Friday Santa Cruz Dozens of art openings in the Santa Cruz region on the first Friday of the month. Bank of Santa Cruz County (3/15/1982) Santa Cruz Downtown Historic District (7/27/1989) Mission Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk KOTR Channel 2: Monterey/Salinas-(Comcast Cable 11) Santa Cruz (Comcast Digital Cable 187) Free Radio Santa Cruz, 101.3 FM The Santa Cruz Sentinel is Santa Cruz's only daily newspaper.
The region is also served by the weekly journal Good Times, bought in 2014 by the owners of its competitor Santa Cruz Weekly, who then consolidated the two, closing one paper under the Good Times name, and the legal paper Santa Cruz Record. University of California has its own publication, City on a Hill Press, and an alternative humor publication, Fish Rap Live!.
There is also an online journal called Santa Cruz Wire.
Lorenzo Asisara-Occupant of the Santa Cruz Mission when it was founded.
After Huntington Beach, California, trademarked the "Surf City USA" name, Santa Cruz politicians tried to stop the mark from being registered by the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office because of a 10-year-old controversy over Santa Cruz's nickname "Surf City." Huntington Beach has obtained a total of seven registrations for the "Surf City USA" trademark. None of these registrations of the trademark are on the principal register, but on the secondary register, which means that Huntington Beach has no exclusive right to assert ownership over the "Surf City USA" trademark.
Two Santa Cruz surf shops, Shoreline Surf Shop and Noland's on the Wharf, sued the town/city of Huntington Beach in order to protect the enhance use of the term "Surf City." The parties reached a confidential settlement in January 2008, in which neither side admitted liability and all claims and counterclaims were dismissed.
The Santa Cruz surf shops continue to print T-shirts, and the Visitor's Bureau retains the right to use the trademark. In 2009 Steve Marble, of Los Angeles Times' L.A.
It's Santa Cruz, says periodical saying: "But Surfer periodical proclaims Santa Cruz to be 'The Real Surf City, USA,' after it considered the surf, food and vibe of the nations' best known surf towns." California Sea Lions at Santa Cruz coast In the 1963 Beach Boys song "Surfin' U.S.A.", one of the verses features the lyrics, "You'd catch 'em surfin' at Del Mar, Ventura County Line, Santa Cruz and Trestles." Several scenes from the 1987 film The Lost Boys were filmed at locations in Santa Cruz, including the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Pogonip Country Club club home and the Santa Cruz Wharf.
The 1988 film Killer Klowns from Outer Space had scenes filmed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, as well as in neighboring Watsonville In the 1988 drama film The Boost, starring James Woods and Sean Young, Lenny and Linda move to Santa Cruz after they have lost everything, to "clean up." Film director Quentin Tarantino references the City of Santa Cruz in Reservoir Dogs and the University of California, Santa Cruz in Pulp Fiction.
Parts of the 1995 drama film, Dangerous Minds, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, were filmed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The 1996 song "Paddle Out" by Sublime is about surfing in Santa Cruz.
The Ataris have a song called "Alone in Santa Cruz" on their album ...Anywhere but Here.
The 1996 TV movie Thrill starring Antonio Sabato, Jr., about a bomb in an amusement park, was filmed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Gillian Welch references the destruction of the Santa Cruz Pacific Garden Mall in her song "Wrecking Ball", off her 2003 album, Soul Journey.
Irish indie/rock band, The Thrills, released a single called "Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)", from their 2003 album So Much for the City.
The 2007 autonomous romantic-comedy Ten Inch Hero takes place in Santa Cruz.
Todd Snider's song "Beer Run" includes the line "Was a beautiful day out in Santa Cruz" plus a reference to the "Robert Earl Keen song." The song's protagonists are "frat guys from Abilene" who make an "all evening" road trip, suggesting that it refers to Santa Cruz, Texas, but their attendance at the "KPIG swine and soiree dance" makes clear that they traveled to California.
Episode "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" referenced UCSC when Stan Smith says he would have given his daughter an A for accomplishment (for her Christmas decorations), but he is not UC Santa Cruz.
The 2010 album Mojo from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers includes the song "The Trip to Pirate's Cove" which makes multiple references to Santa Cruz as well as other locations around California.
In 2012, Chasing Mavericks, a film based on the life of surfer Jay Moriarity and filmed in Santa Cruz, was released.
In 2012, Apple ran a nationwide TV commercial campaign for Siri, a voice assistant for the i - Phone 4 - S, in which the user asks: "What's the best way to Santa Cruz, California?" List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California City of Santa Cruz.
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