The District includes four lime kilns, the cooperage (where barrels were made), the hay barn, cookhouse, limeworker cabins, Cardiff house, and many other historic structures.
In the 1850s and 1860s this was center of the largest lime manufacturing area in California. As a vital building material, lime played a key role in the development of California cities after the Gold Rush.
Your membership dollars go directly towards restoration and educational programs. Such community support is vital in helping the Friends get grants and major donations. A broad membership base also enables us to tap more resources in the community including people with special skills or materials to donate.
Highlights
Come Celebrate!
Please join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal; local, state, and national officials; and the Friends of the Cowell Lime Works Historic District for a very special celebration on Friday, October 30, 2009, to commemorate placement of the Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places and to unveil a permanent bronze plaque that will identify the site. [More]
Fall/Winter 2009-10 Newsletter
The latest edition of Lime Kiln Chronicles is available to download.
Revealing clues about a bygone era
Discovered artifacts help fill in some of the blanks in the historical record of life on the 30-acre area just inside the main entrance to the campus that once supported the largest lime manufacturing plant in the state. Read the story
We need your help
The Cowell Lime Works Historic District needs your help with monetary donations and donations in kind to help restore the historic structures, or volunteer services to assist in reconstruction and interpretation of district history. Please consider joining us and making a donation.
Friends of the Cowell Lime Works Historic District
- Mail Stop PP&C
- University of California
- Santa Cruz, CA 95064
- Email: limeworks@ucsc.edu
- Phone: (831) 459-1254
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