Places

King City

Stories set here

mabel poem

King City

Stepping off the train after two years away — her love letter to King City, the town at the end of the coast families' long road.

story

Sale to Hearst — The End of an Era

Ten dollars on paper for 1,523 acres: the 1922 deed to Hearst's agent that scattered the families and ended 53 Plaskett years in Pacific Valley.

The people of King City

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 King City