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Santa Cruz County is a county
located on the
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Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California, just south of the San Francisco Bay Area, it forms the northern coast of the
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Monterey Bay. (Monterey County forms the southern coast). As of 2000 its population is 255,602. The county seat is Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz County
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was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
In the original act, the county
was given the name of "Branciforte" after the Spanish pueblo founded there in 1797. Less than two months later, the name was changed to "Santa Cruz". Mission Santa Cruz, established in 1791 and completed in 1794, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1857, but a smaller-scale replica was erected in 1931. Santa Cruz means "holy cross" in Spanish.
The county is home to two of the wineries (Ridge Vineyards and David Bruce Winery) selected to compete in the historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976.