Mission San Antonio
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A Day at Wesleys Spring
A day's ride up a steep mountain trail with two companions, to lie beneath the willows at Wesley's spring — a place that appears on no map. We found the ground: Wesley Plaskett's section in the Oat Hills, inland from Jolon.
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Dani Family History Is Told
A shelf of level land a thousand feet above the sea: the Dani place, where Gabriel Dani built a one-armed empire and Lucia got her name.
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Jolon Remembered as Thriving Community on Camino Real
Portolá camped there in 1769; a century later Jolon was the thriving crossroads of the Camino Real — saloons, hotels, and fiestas three days long.
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Nacimiento Homesteaders Picked Real “Beauty Spot”
Up the Nacimiento from the old McKern place, the homesteaders of the 1890s picked the prettiest valley in the Lucias.
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One of Few Remaining Jolon Indians Resides in Lockwood
In an old adobe near Lockwood lives Joe Moro, one of the last of the Jolon Indians — his mother born of the mission people under the great oaks.
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San Simeon Rancho Story Is Told by Mabel Plaskett
Cabrillo's 'Bay of Sardines,' a whaling captain's store, the Hearst boys at play — four centuries of San Simeon in one telling. Sebastian's Store was 102 years old when she wrote it.
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South Monterey County Writers Part II
A 2007 appreciation of Mabel herself — 'Belle' Sans Plaskett with her horse Cleo — by historian Susan Raycraft.
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.
- Ed Dutton · 2 stories
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973 · 2 stories
- Joe Moro · 2 stories
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964 · 2 stories
- Alice Dutton
- Alvis Davis
- Angie Potter
- Bob Digges
- Calvin Coolidge
- Dave Moro
- Don Pancho Estrada
- Father Juan Cabot
- Gabriel Dani 1832–1908
- Gabriel Fontes 1850–
- George Dutton
- Henry Kilsdonk
- Jose Estrada
- Joseph C. Sebastian
- Joseph Clark
- Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo
- Lawson McKern
- Lawson McKern Plaskett 1883–1966
- Leopold Frankl
- Linwood Mitchell 1860–
- Louise Sebastian
- Mabel Sans 1831–1932
- Manuel Sebastian
- Margaret Voss Krenkel 1874–1964
- Marno Dutton
- Marno Dutton Thompson
- Mary Cayetano Sebastian
- Nick Yost –1954
- Norman Hansen
- Orville Olmstead
- Polk Fancher 1895–
- Robert Plaskett 1835–1908
- Roy Mitchell
- Sans Plaskett 1857–1931
- Senator George Hearst
- Thomas Edison
- Wesley Barnes Plaskett 1894–1959
- Wesley Plaskett 1831–
- Wilbur Harlan 1882–1881
- William Randolph Hearst
- Winston Churchill
- Barnes Plaskett 1827–1923 · born here
- Sarah I. Plaskett 1837–1881 · born here
- Bennett Plaskett 1852–1909 · born here
- Sarah J. Plaskett 1888–1921 · born here
- Coreen Plaskett –1931 · born here
- Sarah Plaskett · born here