Hunter, William T.

William T. Hunter (no local burial found) built and/or ran a blacksmith shop from the 1850s, on Mission Street at Rincon Street, across Mission from Temperance Hall. Today's Center Street connection to Mission Street, on the downhill side of the Hunter/Stevens property, did not yet exist, and Rincon (now a redirected Chestnut St.) ran to Mission adjacent to the Mission Hill School land, at today's 125 Mission Street, on the uphill side of Hunter's shop. The 1866 Town of Santa Cruz map and property owners list shows the parcel as the George Stevens residence. In the 1890s, the saloon of Antone Cristofanini was built on the site.

• John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Four, item (1), page 81