Pleyto

Stories set here

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Where the Nacimiento road tops the divide, Mill Creek springs to life — and once powered the sawmills of the Lucias, including her father's.

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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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George Ames rode down from Santa Cruz at fourteen to work for Jim Prewitt — and rode straight into coast legend.

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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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A 2007 appreciation of Mabel herself — 'Belle' Sans Plaskett with her horse Cleo — by historian Susan Raycraft.

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City-bred Margaret Krenkel dug the family well through its first fifty feet — with her sister on the windlass.

The people of Pleyto

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.