WATSONVILLE, a city of Santa Cruz county, California. Pop. (1920) 5,013; in 1930 it had increased to by the Federal census. Over 15,000 ac. of the beautiful fertile Pajaro valley are planted to apples, which supply work for 75–zoo packing houses, 25 driers, canneries and cider and vinegar works in the city. Small fruit, vegetables and other agricultural products
are also shipped in large quantities. Watsonville was one of the early settlements of the State, founded in 1851. It was incor porated as a city in 1903.