San Simeon
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Few Drives as Scenic as Coast’s Cabrillo Highway
Where does Big Sur begin and end? Mabel settles it, then takes you the whole way — San Simeon to Point Lobos, stop by stop. Now with our interactive map and free PDF drive guide.
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Huge, Spouting Whales a Common Sight Along Coast
Every October the gray whales stream south past the coast to calve in Baja — a migration the coast families set their calendars by.
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Mailmen Are Important Link In Coast Country History
Before 1890 the mail came by horseback from Jolon. Seventy years of coast mail carriers — including the Plaskett boys swimming icy rivers with the pack mule.
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Mother Krenkel- A Coast Legend
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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Plasketts Among Early Coast Settlers
How the valley was settled: William Lucas Plaskett's family clearing lilac 'grown to the dimension of small trees' — her classic account of the family's beginning.
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Pt. Piedras Lighthouse Keeps Coast Shippers on Course
Spanish embargoes, shipwrecks on the white rocks, and the Fresnel light that finally kept the coast's shippers on course at Piedras Blancas.
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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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View from Lucia Lodge Draws Thousands of Guests Each Year
In 1932 the road ended at Krenkel Corners; beyond lay wilderness. Lucia Lodge grew where the trail gave out — and the veranda still hangs over the sea.
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Captain Joseph Clark and the San Simeon Whaling Station
Captain Joseph Clark's whaling station made San Simeon a town of 200 before the Hearsts ever came.
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.
- Jasper Mansfield 1860– · 3 stories
- Billy Plaskett 1890–1961 · 2 stories
- Byron Plaskett 1835–1906 · 2 stories
- Charley Plaskett 1872– · 2 stories
- Lucy Plaskett Davis 1886–1975 · 2 stories
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964 · 2 stories
- Alice Eastwood 1859–1953
- Allen McClain
- Alvin Dani
- Calvin Coolidge
- Carsten Voss 1835–
- Clifford Plaskett (Virgin Islands) 1920–1990
- Curnell Mansfield 1892–1972
- Don Pancho Estrada
- Father Juan Cabot
- Frank Digges
- Fred Harlan 1890–
- George Ames 1849–1931
- George Harlan 1885–
- Jack Plaskett 1898–1935
- James M. Krenkel 1862–1943
- Jessie Anderson
- Jessie Case Plaskett
- Jim Prewitt
- John Lowe
- Jose Estrada
- Joseph C. Sebastian
- Joseph Clark
- Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo
- Lawson McKern Plaskett 1883–1966
- Leopold Frankl
- Louise Sebastian
- Lucia Dani 1845–
- Lula Harlan 1892–
- Mabel Sans 1831–1932
- Manuel Sebastian
- Margaret Krenkel
- Margaret Voss Krenkel 1874–1964
- Mary Cayetano Sebastian
- Nancy Summers Plaskett 1858–1936
- Nick Yost –1954
- Norman Hansen
- Paul Harlan
- Roy Plaskett
- Sarah May Barnes Plaskett 1827–1923
- Senator George Hearst
- Thomas Edison
- Tony Fontes 1880–1960
- Tony Vasquez 1884–
- Wilbur Harlan 1882–1881
- Will Voss 1858–
- William D. "Willey" Cruikshank 1862–1937
- William Lucas Plaskett 1818–1909
- Winston Churchill