The The Regional History Project of the Central Coast of California is a project by the University of California at Santa Cruz and includes a vast list of online oral histories about the area.
If you have family or ancestors from the Santa Cruz and Central Coastal area of California, you can learn more about their lives and lifestyles and the history of the area through this regional history project.
The documents online are in HTML and PDF formats, and include stories of famous local residents such as photographer and social reformer, Esther Abbott and Hubert Wyckoff, attorney and labor arbitrator. Other interesting stories and transcribed oral histories include:
- Howell Rommel: The 1955 Santa Cruz Flood
- Fred Wagner: Blacksmithing and Life In The Santa Cruz Area, 1890-1930
- Sandra Martz: Papier-Mache Press and the Gentle Art of Consciousness Raising, 1984-1999
- Michael Bergazzi: Santa Cruz Lumbering
- Kenneth V. Thimann: Early UCSC History and the Founding of Crown College
- Jose Galvan Amaro: Mexican American Laborer, Watsonville, California, 1902-1977
- Mike de la Cruz: The Life of a Laboring Man, 1905-1977
- Helen Hosmer: A Radical Critic of California Agribusiness in the 1930s
- Ray L. Travers: Three Generations of Apple Farming in Watsonville, California, 1875-1977
- Thomas Majors: The Majors Family and Santa Cruz County Dairying
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