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The Plaskett Family

More than a century on the Big Sur coast

Places

Comstock Lode

Stories set here

gold mines

Twelve Feet from Fortune

The most told Plaskett story of all: the Nevada silver tunnel sold twelve feet short of the Comstock Lode.

The people of Comstock Lode

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.

Born, lived, or died at Comstock Lode

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