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    Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, in the Monterey Bay Area of the Central Coast of California. The population was 52,590 at the...
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  • The Watsonville riots was a period of racial violence that took place in Watsonville, California, from January 19 to 23, 1930. Involving violent assaults...
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    county seat is Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz County comprises the Santa Cruz–Watsonville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the San...
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    Watsonville Airport was an airport in Watsonville, California, United States. It was used during World War II for antisubmarine blimps in the defense...
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    Watsonville Municipal Airport (IATA: WVI, ICAO: KWVI, FAA LID: WVI) is three miles (5 km) northwest of Watsonville, in Santa Cruz County, California, United...
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    Watsonville is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census Watsonville had a population of 191 people...
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    Sycamore Canyon Sycuan Peak Thomes Creek Tomales Bay Upper Newport Bay Watsonville Slough West Mojave Desert Woodbridge Yaudanchi Marine Protected Areas...
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  • 1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike was a labor strike that involved over 1,000 workers at two food processing facilities in Watsonville, California...
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  • The Watsonville Pippins were a minor league baseball team based in Watsonville, California. The Pippins played briefly as members of the Class D level...
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  • Pajaronian (formerly the Register-Pajaronian) is a newspaper based in Watsonville, California in Santa Cruz County on California's Central Coast. The Register-Pajaronian...
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  • Watsonville: Some Place Not Here is a three-act 1996 play by Cherríe Moraga. It depicts a cannery strike in Watsonville, California. Watsonville and the...
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    Thompson and her family were traveling on U.S. Highway 101 towards Watsonville "where they had hoped to find work in the lettuce fields of the Pajaro...
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    Watsonville High School is a high school located in Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California, and is part of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District...
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  • Pajaro/Watsonville is a proposed train station on Caltrain and Amtrak California's Capitol Corridor trains to serve both Pajaro and Watsonville, California...
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    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...
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    intermodal Pajaro/Watsonville infill station to serve both Pajaro and Watsonville, at the site of the former Southern Pacific Watsonville Junction station...
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    forming the community's and the county's northern boundary. The city of Watsonville is across the river to the northwest, Santa Cruz County. According to...
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    stagecoach business, Parkhurst retired from driving some years later to Watsonville, California. For fifteen years he worked at farming and lumbering in...
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    this Mexican land grant Rancho San Andrés in the area of present-day Watsonville, California. It had the first dance floor (fandango room) in Santa Cruz...
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  • community organization in Watsonville, California, modeled after the Brown Berets of the Civil Rights Movement. Watsonville is a town with a population...
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  • The Watsonville Traction Company or Watsonville Transportation Company was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge, interurban electrified railway in California...
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    Merced Santa Cruz 264,370 -2.4% 270,861 262,382 +3.2% 608.5 Santa Cruz–Watsonville San Joaquin 793,229 +1.3% 779,233 685,306 +13.7% 559.6 Stockton–Lodi...
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    Soquel Drive, and the Cabrillo College Watsonville Center, located at 318 Union Street in downtown Watsonville. Facility planning and major construction...
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  • (including Hollister); and Santa Cruz County (including Santa Cruz and Watsonville) July 11, 1998 split of 408 832 Texas (Houston Metropolitan Area and...
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    concert series at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and the Mello Center in Watsonville. By the 1860s, Pacific Avenue had become the main street of downtown...
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    120 8,456 +7.9% 2.36 6.1 3,864.4/sq mi (1,492.1/km2) November 7, 1969 Watsonville City Santa Cruz 52,590 51,199 +2.7% 6.71 17.4 7,837.6/sq mi (3,026.1/km2)...
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  • 1970s–2000s Nationwide truckers 1976 Coors 1977-1978 Nationwide truckers 1979 Watsonville Cannery 1985–1987 Nationwide truckers 1994 United Parcel Service 1997...
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    CA Metropolitan Statistical Area Santa Cruz 270,861 446 Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area Shasta 182,155 3786 Redding, CA Metropolitan...
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    143 Vacaville 102,386 Vallejo 126,090 Visalia 141,384 Walnut Creek 70,127 Watsonville 52,590 West Sacramento 53,915 Woodland 61,032 Yuba City 70,117...
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    Dass, Ramayana has been performed every year by Mount Madonna School in Watsonville, California. In the Philippines, a jazz ballet production was produced...
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