Cambria
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Exotic Gardens Is Popular Tourist Stop Near Cambria
Old-timers rode from Gorda to Cambria in a day, saddling before dawn — now the Exotic Gardens greet tourists at the trail's end.
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Lots of Jade…Rugged Monterey Coast Line Is Paradise for Rock Hounds
'Petrified dragon tears': the Chinese revered jade for centuries — and the Monterey coast serves it up to any rock hound patient enough. The article behind our Jade Cove story.
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Mabel Relives Days of Her Youth Spent on Mill Creek
'Mill Creek is my favorite, filled with memories of my childhood' — Mabel returns to her father's sawmill country. Companion to our Return to Mill Creek photo story.
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Mother Krenkel- A Coast Legend
City-bred Margaret Krenkel rode a mule to her own wedding at Los Burros and dug her well by hand — the real-life 'Hannah' of the coast.
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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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Pt. Piedras Lighthouse Keeps Coast Shippers on Course
Spanish embargoes, shipwrecks on the white rocks, and the Fresnel light that finally kept the coast's shippers on course at Piedras Blancas.
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San Simeon Rancho Story Is Told by Mabel Plaskett
Cabrillo's 'Bay of Sardines,' a whaling captain's store, the Hearst boys at play — four centuries of San Simeon in one telling. Sebastian's Store was 102 years old when she wrote it.
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South Monterey County Writers Part II
A 2007 appreciation of Mabel herself — 'Belle' Sans Plaskett with her horse Cleo — by historian Susan Raycraft.
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Tale of the Evans Family
From a green valley in Wales to the Big Sur coast — the Evans family's voyage on a side-wheeler with their cattle penned above the paddle wheel.
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Rugged Monterey Coast Line Is Paradise for Rock Hounds
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 Plaskett 1835–1906 · 3 stories
- Dave Moro · 2 stories
- Henry Kilsdonk · 2 stories
- Laurence Thomas · 2 stories
- Mabel Sans 1831–1932 · 2 stories
- Margaret Voss Krenkel 1874–1964 · 2 stories
- Polk Fancher 1895– · 2 stories
- Alice Eastwood 1859–1953
- Allen McClain
- Alvis Davis
- Angie Potter
- Billy Plaskett 1890–1961
- Bob Digges
- Calvin Coolidge
- Carsten Voss 1835–
- Cayatan Canietti
- Charley Plaskett 1872–
- Clifford Plaskett (Virgin Islands) 1920–1990
- Curnell Mansfield 1892–1972
- Don Pancho Estrada
- Ed Dutton
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973
- Father Juan Cabot
- Frank Digges
- Gabriel Fontes 1850–
- Jack Plaskett 1898–1935
- James M. Krenkel 1862–1943
- Jasper Mansfield 1860–
- Jessie Anderson
- Jessie Case Plaskett
- Jim Prewitt
- Joe Moro
- John Lowe
- Jonathan Evans 1800–
- Jose Estrada
- Joseph C. Sebastian
- Joseph Clark
- Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo
- Lawson McKern Plaskett 1883–1966
- Leopold Frankl
- Lillian Dennis Evans 1880–
- Linwood Mitchell 1860–
- Louise Sebastian
- Lucy Plaskett Davis 1886–1975
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964
- Manuel Sebastian
- Margaret Krenkel
- Marno Dutton Thompson
- Mary Cayetano Sebastian
- Nancy Summers Plaskett 1858–1936
- Nick Yost –1954
- Norman Hansen
- Orval Olmstead
- Orville Olmstead
- Ray Thompson
- Roy Mitchell
- Roy Plaskett
- Sans Plaskett 1857–1931
- Sarah May Barnes Plaskett 1827–1923
- Senator George Hearst
- Sarah Elizabeth Johnson 1848–1926 · died here
- Reason Alpha Plaskett 1852–1933 · died here
- Dora Thomas Ray 1857–1957 · died here
- Dora Ray 1858–1957 · died here
- David Lewis Ray 1860–1940 · died here
- Hiram Ezekiel Ray 1867–1948 · died here
- Frances Marion Plaskett 1878–1966 · died here