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Northern California Wine Country
While Sonoma County enjoys a world-wide reputation for fine wine, it offers much more than beautiful vineyards. Coastal hills and valleys shelter herds of cattle and sheep.
There are majestic stands of redwoods. The benign climate and rich soil foster...
read more about Adult Village, CA Real EstateAptos was named by Native Americans for the confluence of Aptos Creek and Valencia Creek. The name is Ohlone, meaning "the meeting of two creeks".[2] Aptos is usually pronounced "app-toss."
In 1833 the government of Mexico granted Rafael Castro the 6,656-acre (26.94 km2) Rancho Aptos. Initially...
read more about Aptos, CA Real EstateFounded as "Camp Capitola" by Samuel A. Hall in 1874, Capitola was named for the heroine of The Hidden Hand, a novel by the popular author E.D.E.N. Southworth, favored by Hall's daughter Lulu. Capitola is known as the oldest beach resort on the West Coast.
Capitola is a popular tourist town...
read more about Capitola, CA Real EstateHighway 17 connects Highway 1 and Interstate 880. The highway navigates through the Santa Cruz Mountains and is often used to reach San Jose, which has the nearest train station and international airport.
The portion of Route 17 in Santa Cruz County south of Glenwood Road, between post-mile 5.91...
read more about East of Highway 17, CA Real EstateThe term Santa Cruz comes from the Portuguese words meaning Holy Cross. The name was that given to a church that existed on a site on the western side of the railway station, at the site presently occupied by the Sacred Heart Boys High School/Sacred Heart Church on Swami Vivekanand Road, and which...
read more about East Santa Cruz County, CA Real EstateThe first La Habra Post Office was established in 1898 in a corner of Coy's Store at Central (now La Habra Boulevard) and Euclid Street.
The City was incorporated under general law on January 20, 1925 with a population of 3,000. The Police Force was organized in 1926 and employed a Chief, Traffic...
read more about La Habra, CA Real EstateThe town's founding dates to the mid-1850s with the building of a flour operation, Forbes Mill, by James Alexander Forbes along Los Gatos Creek. The mill's two-story stone storage annex has been preserved as a museum just off of Main Street.
The settlement that was established in the 1860s was...
read more about Los Gatos, CA Real EstateRio del Mar (From Spanish: Río del Mar, meaning Sea's River) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The name "Rio Del Mar" was chosen as a "catchy" name to promote real estate in the area during the 1920's.[1] There is no body of water by that name in...
read more about Rio Del Mar, CA Real EstateSan Lorenzo is located on the Rancho San Lorenzo Mexican land grant given to Guillermo Castro in 1841. San Lorenzo was mostly farmland, a significant center of production of fruit and flowers, from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.
Many of the early inhabitants have been laid to rest...
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