Lopez Point Perpetuates Name of Early Settlers

By Mabel Plaskett          🔊 Listen to Post    Among the earliest settlers along the Coast of Monterey County was Manuel Lopez, who with his wife, came straight from Mexico in about 1870, filed on a homestead and built a house close to the sea just south of...

Pacific Valley Gold Claims Still Producing

By Mabel Plaskett           🔊 Listen to Post   Plaskett Ridge is a broad, open ridge running up from the south end of Pacific Valley toward the summit of the coast range where the Nacimiento road crosses it on the way to the coast road. It lies between...
Tale of the Evans Family

Tale of the Evans Family

By Mabel Plaskett           🔊 Listen to Post   In a beautiful green valley in Wales, Jonathan Evans lived with his wife and large family in the early 1800’s. As time went on and the family grew he found it...

Tony Vasquez – Story of a Horseman

By Mabel Plaskett           🔊 Listen to Post   When Monterey was only a village a young man named Pete Artellan sailed from his native France to settle in the new land. Among his children was a dark-eyed beauty called Josephine. This young lady grew up and...