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The Plaskett Family

More than a century on the Big Sur coast

Dani family

Michael Dani

1840

First settler in Lucia area. Built first Redwood schoolhouse of logs notched without nails. Homesteaded where Camaldoli Hermitage now stands.

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History of Coast Schools

Part one of her history of the coast schools — starting with the Redwood School of 1878, built of notched logs without a single nail.

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