Jolon
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The Schoolteacher Brides of Pacific Valley
The county kept sending young women to teach the coast's children — and the Plaskett boys kept marrying them. How two brothers married two sisters, and the schoolhouse became the town.
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The Rattlesnake on the Mail Trail
A rattlesnake struck Ed Plaskett's horse on the mountain mail trail. The horse left the county. The story has a happy ending — eventually.
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Mother Saves Reason from the Indians
Warpaint at the door, her son hidden in the attic — and Sarah met a war party with gentleness, baby clothes, sugar, and nerve.
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The Buckboard Proposal — A Fifteen-Year-Old Bride
'Well Mabel, isn't it about time we got married?' She said her father would never allow it. She was wrong — and the family got its chronicler.
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Lopez Point Perpetuates Name of Early Settlers
Manuel Lopez came from Mexico about 1870 and built by the sea at the point that keeps his name — through fortune, rodeo trophies, and terrible loss.
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Name of George Ames Is Etched in Coast History
George Ames rode down from Santa Cruz at fourteen to work for Jim Prewitt — and rode straight into coast legend.
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Poem To The Ladies of St. Luke’s Guild – In Memory of Olive
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Olive Plaskett Dies During Pregnancy
Olive Sands married at fifteen, dark-eyed and sun-browned from the coast — and died carrying her child.
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Byron Plaskett the Postmaster
From 1890 Byron Plaskett carried the mail from Jolon Road twice a week, rain or shine, with a string of up to ten horses.
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Mabel Childhood Adventures on Mill Creek
'A happier more carefree childhood cannot be imagined' — Mabel on growing up wild on Mill Creek.
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Hunter Liggett Military Reservation
The Army took the Jolon country in 1941 — but the church the Plasketts built still holds services for soldiers.
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Kermit Plaskett - Bombardier Lost in English Channel
Bombardier Kermit Plaskett's bomber went into the English Channel and never came out.
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Twin Dies at Birth - Murton and Winston Plaskett
Winston Plaskett lived. His twin brother Murton lasted one day.
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Asa Jim Mansfield Killed by Runaway Team
A runaway team in Pine Canyon killed Jim Mansfield; his widow Carmen never left the homestead.
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Joe Moro - Last of the Jolon Indians
Joe Moro, born at Morro Bay in 1881, carried the blood of the San Antonio Mission people to the end.
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Reil Dani First to Operate Automobile on Stage Route
Reil Dani drove the Jolon stage for years — and was the first to drive the route with an automobile.
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Tony Fontes - Mission Indian Horseman
Tony Fontes's people heard the first Padres sing at San Antonio Mission. He became the coast's great horseman.
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Jack Dempsey Breaks Cast Iron Skillet Over Mans Head
The Mill Creek rough named Jack Dempsey once settled an argument with a cast-iron skillet.
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.
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973 · 3 stories
- Olive Hyacinth Sans Plaskett 1898–1936 · 3 stories
- Lawson Plaskett 1930–1966 · 2 stories
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964 · 2 stories
- William Nicholas Alderson 1956– · 2 stories
- Abraham Yates
- Alice Stewart Harlan
- Clarence Plaskett 1888–1916
- Dudley Plaskett 1869–1949
- Ed Dutton
- Edward Robert Plaskett 1924–1995
- Edward Robert Sans 1875–1958
- Esther Smith
- Gabriel Fontes 1850–
- George Harlan 1885–
- Henry Rich
- Izaac Dani 1872–
- James 'Jim' Plaskett 1868–1961
- James S. Plaskett 1895–1961
- Jasper Mansfield 1860–
- Jim Prewitt
- Joe Moro
- Laura Dorsett Plaskett 1876–
- Lawson M. Plaskett 1930–1966
- Marion Smith
- Martha Corrine Bennett Plaskett 1852–1911
- Paul Harlan
- Reason Alpha Plaskett 1852–1933
- Sarah I. Plaskett 1837–1881
- Sarah May Barnes Plaskett 1827–1923
- Than Dani 1870–
- Wilbur Harlan 1882–1881
- Byron Gianavil Plaskett 1846–1911 · died here
- Lawrence Plaskett 1848–2006 · born here
- Charles H. Plaskett 1852–1921 · died here
- Martha Corrine Bennett Plaskett 1852–1911 · lived or worked here
- Reason Alpha Plaskett 1852–1933 · lived or worked here
- Olive Flavilla Plaskett McLean 1860–1936 · died here
- William Dudley Plaskett 1869–1949 · lived or worked here
- Charles Henry Plaskett 1872–1921 · lived or worked here
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973 · lived or worked here
- Olive Plaskett 1882–1939 · lived or worked here
- Lawson McKern Plaskett 1883–1966 · died here
- Olive Hyacinth Sans Plaskett 1898–1936 · lived or worked here
- Olive H. Plaskett 1898–1936 · lived or worked here
- Gordon Laurence Plaskett Sr 1913–1954 · born here
- Cyril Edward Plaskett 1915–1967 · born here
- Virginia Claire Plaskett 1915–1988 · born here
- Fred John Merritt 1915–1985 · born here
- Ethyl Margarette Plaskett Horn 1917– · born here
- Winton L. Plaskett 1918–1918 · lived or worked here
- Clifford Keith Plaskett 1919–1991 · lived or worked here
- Shirley Joyce Plaskett 1922–2012 · died here
- Shirley Merritt 1922–2012 · lived or worked here
- Mary Louise Loudermilk Plaskett 1923–2018 · lived or worked here
- Jean Marie Hughes Plaskett 1923–2014 · lived or worked here
- Lawrence Monroe Plaskett 1929–2006 · born here
- Sara Plaskett 1933–2018 · lived or worked here
- Gordon William Plaskett 1935–2013 · born here
- William Merritt 1937–2013 · died here
- Lawrence Monroe Plaskett Jr 1954–2020 · born here
- Mark Aaron Knott Lafferty –2008 · lived or worked here
- Oliver H. Plaskett · lived or worked here