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We would like to provide the residents of  Capitola  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Capitola Home page. The Capitola Home page provides as much information as possible on Capitola. Knowing Capitola’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Capitola’s Home page, you will also find Capitola’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Capitola has a population of 10090. 45.2% of Capitola’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.8 are female. 42.4% of Capitola is married and 47.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $735,840, and the average rent is $1,932. Household median income in Capitola is $81,617, and the individual median income is $40,690. Capitola’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.8%), Hispanic(22.9%), Multiple(5.5%), Asian(4.2%), Other(3.4%), Native(0.7%), Black(0.2%), Pacific(0.2%).


The original settlement now known as Capitola grew out of what was then called Soquel Landing. Soquel Landing got its name from a wharf located at the mouth of Soquel Creek. This wharf, which dates back to the 1850s, served as an outlet for the produce and lumber grown in the interior. In 1865, Captain John Pope Davenport, a whaleman at Monterey, moved his operations to be near the wharf.


Unable to capture any whales, he moved his operations the following year to Point Año Nuevo.In 1869, Frederick A. Hihn, who owned the property in the vicinity of the wharf, decided to develop it as a seaside resort. At first he leased the area to Samuel A. Hall and the area became known as Camp Capitola.


Most authorities believe that it was Hihn who chose the name of Capitola, but they are unsure as to why he did so. Several possibilities have been asserted, one being that it was named for the heroine of The Hidden Hand, a novel by the popular author E. D. E. N. Southworth, favored by Hall's daughter Lulu.


Capitola is known as the oldest beach resort on the West Coast.In the summer of 1961 hundreds of birds attacked the town. Most of the birds were sooty shearwaters, a normally non-aggressive species that rarely comes to shore. Alfred Hitchcock was a regular visitor to nearby Santa Cruz and read about this episode.


He went on to direct a film—The Birds—based on the idea of hundreds of birds attacking humans. The reason for this attack remained unknown for over 25 years until it was discovered that the birds had been affected by domoic acid, a toxin produced by red algae.The Capitola Classic was a skateboarding event held in Capitola village in the late 1970s and early 1980s.


The Capitola Classic was known in skating circles for its annual downhill race, which was a head-to-head speed competition that drew top names in the sport, many local as well as international, including Santa Cruz, California local John Hutson, who held the world speed record for skateboarding at 53.45 mph and dominated the event each year. Starting in 2009 efforts were made to revive the event.On March 24, 2011, a drainage pipe burst following heavy rains, sending a surge of water through the historic village area. Two days later cleanup operations were interrupted when the area was flooded again.


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