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The Plaskett Family

More than a century on the Big Sur coast

One family. More than a century on the Big Sur coast.

Stories, people, and places of the Plasketts — told in their own words.

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Pacific Valley

by Mabel Plaskett, writing as Belinda Brown · 1941-05-20

Her earliest known piece, under the pen name Belinda Brown - eighteen years before Coast Trails. How Cox's Hole became Pacific Valley, who named it, and the July the family left Fresno because San Joaquin was getting “too thickly settled”.

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Family spotlight

Samuel Plaskett Jr. (1784-1854) 1784–1854

Son of Samuel Plaskett (the Revolutionary War soldier). Married Polly Rush on October 27, 1813 in Clark County, Indiana. Father of William Lucas Plaskett (1818-1909), the California pioneer patriarch.…

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Inside the Davis Saloon at Manchester, c. 1889 — four miners at the bar under papered walls and mirrors, in a town that had a hotel, two stores, a school, and 'of course saloons.'
Inside the Davis Saloon at Manchester, c. 1889 — four miners at the bar under papered walls and mirrors, in a town that had a hotel, two stores, a school, and 'of course saloons.'

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