Dudley Plaskett
Dudley Plaskett was born in 1869 in Gorda Monter. Dudley died in 1949 in Jolon Cemetery, aged about 80.
This summary is assembled from the family record. If you know more about Dudley Plaskett — stories, photographs, corrections — the family would be glad to hear from you.
place history
The Schoolteacher Brides of Pacific Valley
The county kept sending young women to teach the coast's children — and the Plaskett boys kept marrying them. How two brothers married two sisters, and the schoolhouse became the town.
gold mines
The Los Burros Mining District and the Lost Town of Manchester
Organized 1876, transformed by Willey Cruikshank's Last Chance strike in 1887 — and gone by 1897, burned and grown over. The rise and fall of the coast's gold district, and the lost town of Manchester.
gold mines
Dudley Plaskett Discovers Gold at Ocean View
In May 1911 Dudley Plaskett picked solid gold nuggets out of the creek mouth — then followed them upstream.
mabel article
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.
mabel article
Pacific Valley Gold Claims Still Producing
A dozen mining claims on Plaskett Ridge — including the arrastra her husband's grandfather built — and the gold still waiting in the family's hills.
place history
History of Coast Schools Part 2
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