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Margaret Eaton
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Margaret Eaton 1920, former Santa Cruz Island resident for almost 30 years, Margaret Eaton lived with her husband and daughter on Santa Cruz Island beginning in 1908, first in fishing camps and later running a resort at Pelican Bay. During the 1920s and 30s.
About once a month, the company schooner the Santa Cruz came down from prisoners harbor to bring a new supply of wine and groceries to Scorpion Ranch. There would be 5 or 6 barrels of wine, many boxes of macaroni, sacks of flu. More and grain for the horses. The freight was unloaded onto a pontoon and a heavy rope ran from the schooner to a dead man on the beach. The ranch hands would unload the supplies into a low sled with iron runners underneath the. Usually arrived around noon and Ira always invited the captain and crew up to our kitchen to have a. Bite to. Eat. Usually it was crawfish pipino. They would tell us all the news of any importance from town.
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55 seconds
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NPS
Date Created
06/04/2016
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