Billy Plaskett
Billy Plaskett was born in 1890 in Pacific Valley. Billy died in 1961, aged about 71.
This summary is assembled from the family record. If you know more about Billy Plaskett — stories, photographs, corrections — the family would be glad to hear from you.
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History of Coast Schools Concluded
Part two: Pacific Valley School — kept since 1880 on the east side of the highway at Plaskett Creek — and the teachers who came to the edge of the world.
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Mailmen Are Important Link In Coast Country History
Before 1890 the mail came by horseback from Jolon. Seventy years of coast mail carriers — including the Plaskett boys swimming icy rivers with the pack mule.
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Plasketts Among Early Coast Settlers
How the valley was settled: William Lucas Plaskett's family clearing lilac 'grown to the dimension of small trees' — her classic account of the family's beginning.
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History of Coast Schools Part 2
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