Chalk Peak

Stories set here

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Luther Burbank's cuttings came down the coast in 1898 with Linwood Mitchell — and the mountain orchards still bear the evidence.

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Where the Nacimiento road tops the divide, Mill Creek springs to life — and once powered the sawmills of the Lucias, including her father's.

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In an old adobe near Lockwood lives Joe Moro, one of the last of the Jolon Indians — his mother born of the mission people under the great oaks.

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Joe and Dave Moro of Chalk Peak worked the Sands sawmill for ten years — two of the last Jolon Indians.

The people of Chalk Peak

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.