Difference between revisions of "Smugglers Ranch, Santa Cruz Island"
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[[File:SCRI Historic Base Map.jpg| | [[File:SCRI Historic Base Map.jpg|400px|thumbnail|right|<center>Smugglers Ranch, Santa Cruz Island</center>]] | ||
[[File:Smugglers Ranch 1892.jpg| | [[File:Smugglers Ranch 1892.jpg|400px|thumbnail|right|<center>Smugglers Ranch, 1892</center>]] | ||
[[File:Smugglers 1889.jpg| | [[File:Smugglers 1889.jpg|400px|thumbnail|right|<center>Smugglers Ranch, Santa Cruz Island, 1889</center>]] | ||
[[File:Smugglers Ranch©.jpg| | [[File:Smugglers Ranch©.jpg|400px|thumbnail|right|<center>Smugglers Ranch, Santa Cruz Island, 2002</center>]] | ||
<span style="color:#FF0000">'''Smugglers Ranch, Santa Cruz Island'''</span> is on the east end of the island. It was built under the direction of island owner, Justinian Caire as one of several out-ranches. In May of 1889, Geologist William Goodyear reported: | <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Smugglers Ranch, Santa Cruz Island'''</span> is on the east end of the island. It was built under the direction of island owner, Justinian Caire as one of several out-ranches. In May of 1889, Geologist William Goodyear reported: | ||
: “From San Pedro Point we went to Smugglers Cove, where they were building a new house, as yet unfinished, and where there is a young plantation of fig and olive trees, and a vineyard. The rock with which the corners of the house are faced is the same clay-rock, containing small impressions suggesting fossil leaves, as that which occupies so large an area in the region south and southwest of Chinese Harbor. It is here obtained from a quarry some 200 yards back, i.e. to the west, from the edge of the surf in the cove...” [Goodyear 1890: 159]. | : “From San Pedro Point we went to Smugglers Cove, where they were building a new house, as yet unfinished, and where there is a young plantation of fig and olive trees, and a vineyard. The rock with which the corners of the house are faced is the same clay-rock, containing small impressions suggesting fossil leaves, as that which occupies so large an area in the region south and southwest of Chinese Harbor. It is here obtained from a quarry some 200 yards back, i.e. to the west, from the edge of the surf in the cove...” [Goodyear 1890: 159]. | ||
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Smugglers Ranch, Santa Cruz Island is on the east end of the island. It was built under the direction of island owner, Justinian Caire as one of several out-ranches. In May of 1889, Geologist William Goodyear reported:
- “From San Pedro Point we went to Smugglers Cove, where they were building a new house, as yet unfinished, and where there is a young plantation of fig and olive trees, and a vineyard. The rock with which the corners of the house are faced is the same clay-rock, containing small impressions suggesting fossil leaves, as that which occupies so large an area in the region south and southwest of Chinese Harbor. It is here obtained from a quarry some 200 yards back, i.e. to the west, from the edge of the surf in the cove...” [Goodyear 1890: 159].
