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The PVHA was founded in 1940 [1] by the local chapter of the Native Sons of the Golden West encouraged by the Watsonville Woman's Club. The PVHA incorporated in 1956. The PVHA incorporated in 1956. In 1964, Helen Haynes Volck Tucker donated her home to the group to be used as a museum, which was dedicated on July 4, 1965.
The house was built in 1848–1849 by Juan José Castro. His father Jose Joaquin Castro (1768–1838), came to California as a 6-year-old with his family from Sinaloa Mexico on the 1775–1776 Anza Expedition. Jose Joaquín Castro received this Mexican land grant Rancho San Andrés in the area of present-day Watsonville, California.
Born in 1875 in Watsonville, California, Lee was a son of Chinese immigrants. [4] Lee's parents had started a laundry and grocery business in Watsonville, but they moved many times before finally settling in Ripon, California. In his youth, Lee had run away from home after growing pressure from his father to leave school and work full-time.
Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, in the Monterey Bay Area of the Central Coast of California. [2] The population was 52,590 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ] Predominantly Latino and Democratic , Watsonville is a self-designated sanctuary city .
1936 Bon Voyage Banquet for Mr & Mrs Joe Shoong & family. As a strategy for keeping prices low, Shoong had most of the stores’ merchandise manufactured in a company-owned factory in San Francisco's Chinatown rather than importing goods from outside of the U.S. [8] In an interview for the Oakland Tribune in 1924, Shoong explained, “From manufacturer direct to the consumer, is the plan ...
It is approximately 1.5 miles (2.5 km) long, and located near Watsonville. It is surrounded by large agricultural fields west of the city of Watsonville. Manresa State Beach is to the north-upcoast of Sunset State Beach.
Granite Rock Company was founded on February 14, 1900 by Arthur Roberts, (A.R.) Wilson, and Warren R. Porter.Wilson was born in San Francisco in 1866, graduated from MIT with the class of 1890, and returned to California where he partnered with Kimball G. Easton in a Bay Area street paving and construction firm known as Easton and Wilson.
The beach and park is about 16 miles (30 km) north of the city of Monterey via Highway 1, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Watsonville. Among the most popular activities are offshore fishing, surfing, windsurfing and horseback riding. However, the strong rip currents make the water recreation (swimming, wading, etc.) dangerous.