Last summer, the City of Santa Cruz passed a resolution to correct a longstanding historical error: the misspelling of London Nelson's name. That meant changing some signage, most prominently at the community center renamed for Nelson in 1978. The image at right is from 2017 Streetview.
I don't know exactly when it happened, but there's now a new sign at the corner of Laurel and Center Streets. The photo at left was taken a couple of weeks ago, on one of our many cloud-free January days.
On Christmas Day, I found that the name change has reached the monument at the top of the old stone Mission Hill schoolyard steps on Mission Street (right). A new bronze plaque has been attached, covering the engraved top surface of the granite plinth. The only change to the information previously displayed is the corrected spelling of "London".
Santa Cruz Changes locations can be found on this Google Map.
