Anderson Valley
The Mendocino County valley where William Lucas Plaskett settled his family in 1854, farming and raising stock among the valley’s first families — the Plasketts appear in the 1860 Anderson Valley census. Mendocina Plaskett, the family’s first California daughter, was born here in September 1856 and named for the county. The rehearsal for Pacific Valley.
place history
Before Big Sur: The Mendocino Years
Fifteen years before Pacific Valley, William Lucas Plaskett rehearsed his dream in Anderson Valley — where the family named a daughter Mendocina, left their name on a mountain meadow that still carries it, and stopped twelve feet short of a different life.
story
Mendocina First White Child
Born in Anderson Valley in 1856, Mendocina Plaskett was the first white child born in Mendocino County.
Everyone the family archive records in the story of this place. Descendants: if one of these is yours, we’d love to hear from you.
- Byron Gianavil Plaskett 1846–1911
- Curnell H. Mansfield 1835–1906
- James Samuel Plaskett 1870–1961
- Leonidas Hamlin Plaskett 1848–1918
- Mendocina May Plaskett Mansfield 1856–1936
- Reason Alpha Plaskett 1852–1933
- Sarah May Barnes Plaskett 1827–1923
- William Lucas Plaskett 1818–1909