Plaskett Meadows
High meadows and two small trout lakes at 6,000 feet in what is now Mendocino National Forest, near Mendocino Pass — still carrying the family’s name from the 1850s, on a USGS map sheet itself titled ‘Plaskett Meadows.’ The Plasketts left their name here fifteen years before they put it on a creek, a ridge, a rock and a beach in Big Sur.
place history
Before Big Sur: The Mendocino Years
Fifteen years before Pacific Valley, William Lucas Plaskett rehearsed his dream in Anderson Valley — where the family named a daughter Mendocina, left their name on a mountain meadow that still carries it, and stopped twelve feet short of a different life.
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.
- Byron Gianavil Plaskett 1846–1911
- Curnell H. Mansfield 1835–1906
- James Samuel Plaskett 1870–1961
- Leonidas Hamlin Plaskett 1848–1918
- Mendocina May Plaskett Mansfield 1856–1936
- Reason Alpha Plaskett 1852–1933
- Sarah May Barnes Plaskett 1827–1923
- William Lucas Plaskett 1818–1909
- Henry B. Plaskett 1655–1859 · born here
- James B. Plaskett 1832–1838 · born here
- Ephraim F Rich 1854–1920 · died here
- Laura F. Plaskett 1858–1918 · born here
- Olive Flavilla Plaskett McLean 1860–1936 · born here
- Mary Josephine Plaskett Patterson 1862–1956 · born here
- Cora R Plaskett 1866–1888 · born here
- Cyrus B. Plaskett 1866–1881 · born here
- Wesley B. Plaskett 1930– · born here
- Mary Ann Sibley –1840 · born here