This is the only surviving photograph of the Chinese fishing camp located from the early 1850s to the 1880s at the base of the bluff on present-day New Brighton State Beach. Photo credit: UCSC Special Collections

A Guide to Some of the Monterey Bay Region's
Best-Kept Secrets


People often walk up to the History Dude and point at something with the question, "What the heck is that?" Each month we'll expose yet another of the region's mysteries.

  You thought the KKK was only in the South?
Here’s some regional history they’ll never tell you!
     
  What the heck are those things? The Mysterious Structures Along Beach Road
     
  Top Ten Disasters
     
  Why is New Brighton State Beach not called China Beach?
     
  The Night of the Batons, May 10, 1972, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz County's Earlier Foreign Policy Adventure
     
  The Mysterious Ramparts on Santa Cruz County'sNorth Coast
     
  The Moss Landing Whaling Station - 1919-1926
     
  Dead Whales Make Good Tourist Bait
     
  The Mysterious Pilings near Aptos Creek
     


Is that a Yogi Temple in Santa Cruz?

     


The Story of Santa Cruz's Wave Motor

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