
He developed it into an attraction called Camp Seabright, named after a location on the Jersey Shore.

Mott bought the land south of Pilkington Creek from the Woods family in 1884.

This tourist boom began in the 1880s, and by 1905 this thriving community of locals and vacationers was annexed by the City of Santa Cruz. Eleanor Castro, Amah Mutsun Elder Early Seabright Most of today’s Seabright neighborhood was occupied by the Woods and Pilkington family farms in the 1850s, but it began to quickly develop into a popular residential area. Once the jewelry was used in ceremony it could only be worn in ceremony. It was used to protect us from evil spirits while we danced. The jewelry was not only worn for adornment but we used it in our ceremonies.

The Indigenous relationship to these resources was severely disrupted when Mission Santa Cruz was built in 1791 but continues to this day. The San Lorenzo River, Woods Lagoon, and the ocean itself provided an abundance of food and resources for tools, jewelry, and more. The original inhabitants of the Seabright region were the Uypi people.
