Ben Lomond’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Ben Lomond. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The nearby Ben Lomond Mountain was named after the mountain in Scotland by a Scottish immigrant. John Burns settled on the west side of the ridge in 1851. Burns became one of the first vintners in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and is usually also credited with naming the community of Bonny Doon. The San Lorenzo River watershed contains extensive forests of Coast redwood, and was an early center of the logging/lumber industry in Santa Cruz County. The community was originally known as Pacific Mills, after a sawmill operation located there. When, in 1887, the community applied for a U.S. Post Office, residents voted to adopt the name of the mountain.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Ben Lomond’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ben Lomond’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewBen Lomond Winery, 1892: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Ben Lomond
See all 1 →Ben Lomond, decade by decade
1990s
unknown1 item
1 historic place in Ben Lomond
1 place in Ben Lomond is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Ben Lomond Winery (1892) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.