by pvha | Nov 30, 2023 | News
By Elijah Ezeji-Okoye For a short time in Watsonville’s earlier history, autumn was marked by the coming of the Apple Annual. In the early 1900s, the city’s apple industry burgeoned, with new orchards, packinghouses, and shipping centers cropping up across the...
by pvha | Nov 30, 2023 | News
By Claire Etienne (Peter Hauer’s great niece and daughter of Muriel Hauer Etienne) Peter Hauer created the Hauer apple around 1900 in Pleasant Valley, near Watsonville. The Hauer apple is an “antique apple.” It is one of only two varieties said to have originated in...
by pvha | Nov 30, 2023 | News
The Bockius-Orr house, trees, and yard will be lit up for Christmas again this year. Drive by in the evening to see the beautiful lights between November 23 until January 1. (Time approx.. 5pm. – 10 p.m.) The Bockius-Orr house will also have a...
by Ralph Jacobs | Jul 17, 2023 | News
Watsonville historian Betty Lewis wrote “Don Sebastian Rodriguez owned the land grant, Bolsa del Pajaro, on which the city of Watsonville now rests. Some historians say he gave the area now known as the City Plaza to the people of Watsonville in 1860, but Sebastian...
by Bill Beecher | Apr 23, 2023 | News
For the last 170 years, the Pajaro Valley has been an opportunity for many different immigrants to improve themselves. Most came with a little except for the desire to make a better life for themselves and their families. The Pajaro Valley was a place where immigrants...
by pvha | Mar 28, 2023 | News
Pajaro at San Juan Road...
