Chalk Peak
Stories set here
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History of Early Orchards Linked to Luther Burbank
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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Lumber Mills Once Buzzed in the Lucias
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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One of Few Remaining Jolon Indians Resides in Lockwood
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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The Jolon Indians - Joe and Dave Moro
Joe and Dave Moro of Chalk Peak worked the Sans 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.
- Dave Moro · 2 stories
- Joe Moro · 2 stories
- Linwood Mitchell 1860– · 2 stories
- Albert Barnes 1834–1899
- Alvis Davis
- Angie Potter
- Bob Digges
- Ed Dutton
- Gabriel Fontes 1850–
- Henry Kilsdonk
- Henry Rich
- Jolon Indian
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964
- Marion Plaskett 1848–1906
- Marno Dutton
- Orville Olmstead
- Roy Mitchell
- William Cruikshank Sr. 1835–
- William D. "Willey" Cruikshank 1862–1937
- William Lucas Plaskett 1818–1909