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The Plaskett Family

More than a century on the Big Sur coast

Los Burros Explorer · The Mines

Grizzly Mine

quartz gold unknown -

Located by Sam Pugh (son of James P. Pugh), partner of Arthur Lazier. The Grizzly Mine's water-wheel arrastra was photographed about 1900 and appears in the family archive.

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Discovery

By Sam Pugh Strongly supported

Ownership & work

  1. Sam Pugh located Strongly supported

People

  • Sam Pugh

Location

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Sources
  1. Mabel Plaskett, “Henry Melville Attracted to Coast by Los Burros Gold,” The Land, March 1960. family history
  2. “The Los Burros Mining District and the Lost Town of Manchester,” plaskett.family. family history

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