The family history and genealogy industry is booming, with people now able to even analyse the DNA of their pets. In the United States and o...

What is Santa Cruz County? It is perhaps a strange question since it seems easy to answer: Santa Cruz County is an administrative division o...

The Santa Cruz Railroad had a goal—indeed a requirement—if it wanted to earn its first subsidy payment in 1874: it had to build 5 miles of o...

A wye  is a common railroad track feature that can serve several different purposes. Usually triangular or Y-shaped, hence the name, the pri...

John T. Sullivan and his wife were recent arrivals from New York when they became the proprietors of the Bay State Cottage in Santa Cruz in ...