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5,305
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$103,576
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America/Los_Angeles
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Boulder Creek, CA - History
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Welcome to the Boulder Creek Home page. The Boulder Creek Home page provides as much information as possible on Boulder Creek. Knowing Boulder Creek’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Boulder Creek’s Home page, you will also find Boulder Creek’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Boulder Creek has a population of 5305. 54.5% of Boulder Creek’s inhabitants are Male, and 45.5 are female. 48.2% of Boulder Creek is married and 81% own their own home. The Average Home price is $601,582, and the average rent is $1,496. Household median income in Boulder Creek is $103,576, and the individual median income is $51,410. Boulder Creek’s Ethnic is the following: White(91.6%), Hispanic(9.9%), Multiple(3.2%), Pacific(1.6%), Native(1.2%), Black(1.1%), Other(0.9%), Asian(0.4%).
Branciford Alcorn was one of the first to settle along Bear Creek in 1865. Daniel Crediford and sons Wilfred and Stephen moved about four miles up Boulder Creek to the Sequoia district in 1867. West Virginian Joseph Wilbur Peery also settled in the Boulder area in 1867 and began a small-scale logging project along the San Lorenzo River.
Peery built a dam across the river at Two Bar Creek to provide water power to his mill and for the one he later built two miles south of the junction of the river, Boulder and Bear creeks. Twin brothers Austin and Oscar Harmon assisted at the Two Bar Creek mill until its closure. The erection of the Two Bar Creek sawmill by Peery later helped in the establishment of the settlement of Boulder. The year 1868 was the founding year for the settlement of Boulder.
Transportation remained a problem, slowing development of the small communities that now dotted the valley. A road extension from Graham Hill Road linking the upper San Lorenzo valley with Santa Cruz through Felton was completed in May. It also marked the completion of the United States government's survey of all land not held by grants in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which was then opened for purchase and homesteading.
Government surveyors divided the largely unsettled San Lorenzo Valley into claimable sections. The area of Boulder Creek occupied two 160-acre tracts. The northern half, between Harmon and Bear Creeks, was awarded to John Alcorn, Branciford's son. Loggers moved up the San Lorenzo and its tributaries removing every marketable tree that were then sold to the demanding market of the San Francisco Bay area.
The lumbermen and their families moved into scattered cottages and homes around the periphery of Peery's Two Bar Creek sawmill, while a general store, livery stable, and blacksmith shop arose nearby to support the mill and its visitors. The increase in the number of families with children determined the need for a school, the first one of which was started in a small building on Alcorn's land on what is now West Park Drive.Lumber could not be shipped over the mountains to Santa Clara Valley.
Two years later in 1871, another road extension, the Saratoga Toll Road, was added from the summit at the Saratoga Gap and ran 11 miles to meet the road that ran about four miles above Boulder Creek. In June, the Maclay Turnpike officially opened. Alcorn erected a two-story boarding house, the Boulder Creek House.
That same year, Peery was awarded a land grant and relocated his lumber mill a mile south to Lorenzo, a settlement that he laid out, which was bounded by what is now Harmon, West, South, and East Streets. With an access point to the greater San Francisco Bay Area came the establishment of a post office named Boulder Creek in 1872, with Peery becoming the first Postmaster.
Mail runs were limited to twice a week because it took a mail carrier two days to travel from Santa Clara to Felton.What is now Boulder Creek was originally once two settlements: Lorenzo at the southern end of town, and Boulder was north of the current town core. Boulder Creek served as the upper terminus of the San Lorenzo Valley Logging Flume terminating in Felton, which began construction in 1874 and, when formally opened in October 1875, was augmented by a new rail line to transport logs to the wharf in Santa Cruz.
In the 1880s, this lumber town which was called Lorenzo took the name of the Boulder Creek post office that had been established in the 1870s.
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