Mill Creek
Creek along the Nacimiento-Fergusson Road from King City to the Big Sur coast. Site of Edward Sans' saw mill where Mabel Sans (later Plaskett) was raised. Lion Creek is a small tributary.
place history
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.
place history
Return to Mill Creek: Walking Mabel's Childhood Home
A hike up the Mill Creek Trail toward the old Sans sawmill site — the canyon where Mabel Sans Plaskett grew up.
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Linwood Mitchell Brings Luther Burbank Plants to Coast
In 1898 Linwood Mitchell packed Luther Burbank's cuttings down the coast and planted a legend.
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Old Cap - The Eccentric Engineer
Orval Olmstead — 'Old Cap' to the children — brought the ways of a sailing ship to a cabin on Mill Creek.
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Mabel Sans Childhood at Mill Creek Sawmill
Mabel's childhood ran on sawdust and creek water at her father's mill among the redwoods.
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Abandoned Piano on Mill Creek Trail
A repossession man got a piano halfway down the Mill Creek trail, gave up, and left it to the forest.
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.
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964 · 2 stories
- Orval Olmstead · 2 stories
- William Nicholas Alderson 1956– · 2 stories
- Alice Stewart Harlan
- Byron Gianavil Plaskett 1846–1911
- Clarence Plaskett 1888–1916
- Dudley Plaskett 1869–1949
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973
- Edward Robert Sans 1875–1958
- Esther Smith
- Kimberly Dawn Mueller Alderson 1964–
- Lawson McKern Plaskett 1883–1966
- Linwood Mitchell 1860–
- Mabel Sans 1831–1932
- Marion Smith
- Martha Corrine Bennett Plaskett 1852–1911
- Olive Flavilla Plaskett McLean 1860–1936
- Olive Hyacinth Sans Plaskett 1898–1936
- Paul Harlan
- Polk Fancher 1895–
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964 · lived or worked here