Limekiln
Limekiln State Park, two miles south of Lucia. From 1887 to 1890 the Rockland Lime and Lumber Company quarried limestone here and burned it in four iron-and-stone kilns, which still stand at the end of the creek trail; barrels of lime rode a cable out to Rockland Cove and were loaded onto ships at the dog-hole port at the creek mouth. Three years exhausted both the limestone and the redwood used to fire the kilns. The 711-acre park was established in 1994 and holds the kilns, a redwood canyon, the 100-foot Limekiln Falls, and a beach. Mabel Plaskett called the walk up this creek 'the most beautiful scenic walk in the world.'
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Few Drives as Scenic as Coast’s Cabrillo Highway
Where does Big Sur begin and end? Mabel settles it, then takes you the whole way — San Simeon to Point Lobos, stop by stop. Now with our interactive map and free PDF drive guide.
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Story of an ‘Empire’ Symbolized by Chimney
A lone stone chimney above Lime Kiln Canyon is all that remains of Victor Girard's redwood-pole mansion — an empire that lasted barely a decade.
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.
- Albert Sans 1908–
- Alvin Dani
- Morrall Ahlstrom
- Paul Harlan
- Victor Girard 1875–