Los Burros Mining District
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The Los Burros Mining District and the Lost Town of Manchester
Organized 1876, transformed by Willey Cruikshank's Last Chance strike in 1887 — and gone by 1897, burned and grown over. The rise and fall of the coast's gold district, and the lost town of Manchester.
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Mother Krenkel- A Coast Legend
City-bred Margaret Krenkel rode a mule to her own wedding at Los Burros and dug her well by hand — the real-life 'Hannah' of the coast.
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Alice Eastwood and Reezy Plaskett: The Plants of the Plaskett Coast
In five months of collecting, a self-taught Big Sur carpenter sent Alice Eastwood six plants new to science — and she named two of them for him.
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The Arrastra on Plaskett Creek
Built by William Lucas Plaskett about 1885 and turned by a water wheel on the creek, the family arrastra ground the Western Star's gold ore — and its timbers, iron and basin are still there.
- 1912-04-06 The Plaskett Bros. Mining Company → L.M.Plaskett · 60 acres
- 1912-04-06 Plaskett Bros. Mining Company → Lawson M. Plaskett
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.
- Reason Alpha Plaskett 1852–1933 · 3 stories
- William Lucas Plaskett 1818–1909 · 3 stories
- Francis Marion Plaskett 1854–1906 · 2 stories
- James M. Krenkel 1862–1943 · 2 stories
- Margaret Voss Krenkel 1874–1964 · 2 stories
- William D. "Willey" Cruikshank 1862–1937 · 2 stories
- Alice Dutton
- Alice Eastwood 1859–1953
- Alvis Davis
- Augusta Stringle Cruikshank
- Byron Gianavil Plaskett 1846–1911
- Carsten Voss 1835–
- Dave Moro
- Dudley Plaskett 1869–1949
- Ed Dutton
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973
- Frank Digges
- Henry Kilsdonk
- Henry Melville
- Jessie Anderson
- Joe Moro
- John D. Cruikshank
- Lawson McKern Plaskett 1883–1966
- Leonidas Hamlin Plaskett 1848–1918
- Linwood Mitchell 1860–
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964
- Margaret Krenkel
- Marion Plaskett 1848–1906
- Roy Mitchell
- Will Voss 1858–
- William Cruikshank Sr. 1835–
- James M. Krenkel 1862–1943 · lived or worked here
- William D. "Willey" Cruikshank 1862–1937 · lived or worked here
- Margaret Voss Krenkel 1874–1964 · lived or worked here