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The Plaskett Family

More than a century on the Big Sur coast

Plaskett family

Roy Plaskett

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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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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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