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Mission Santa Cruz

HE Mission of the Holy Cross, not a trace of which now remains and the site of which is identified only by a mark, was founded in 1791 where the present city of the name now stands within the shadow of the great redwoods and at one end of the shining crescent of the Bay of Monterey. It was in its time a thriving establishment busy with the day's work and filled with the anvil's music and the sound of whirring looms.

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Mission Santa Cruz