Los Burros Mining District
Stories set here
gold mines
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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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.
gold mines
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.
Land transactions
- 1912-04-06 The Plaskett Bros. Mining Company → L.M.Plaskett · 60 acres
- 1912-04-06 Plaskett Bros. Mining Company → Lawson M. Plaskett
The people of Los Burros Mining District
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
- Alice Dutton
- Alice Eastwood 1859–1953
- Alvis Davis
- Augusta Stringle Cruikshank
- Byron Gianavil Plaskett 1846–1911
- Dave Moro
- Dudley Plaskett 1869–1949
- Ed Dutton
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973
- Edward Robert Plaskett 1924–1995
- Henry Kilsdonk
- Henry Melville
- James M. Krenkel 1862–1943
- Joe Moro
- John D. Cruikshank
- Leonidas Hamlin Plaskett 1848–1918
- Linwood Mitchell 1860–
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964
- Margaret Voss Krenkel 1874–1964
- Marion Plaskett 1848–1906
- Roy Mitchell
- William Cruikshank Sr. 1835–
- William D. "Willey" Cruikshank 1862–1937
Born, lived, or died at Los Burros Mining District
- 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