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The Plaskett Family

More than a century on the Big Sur coast

Places

Sand Dollar Beach

The largest sandy beach on the Big Sur coast, below Pacific Valley, across Highway 1 from Plaskett Creek Campground.

Stories set here

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History of Coast Schools

Part one of her history of the coast schools — starting with the Redwood School of 1878, built of notched logs without a single nail.

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History of Coast Schools Concluded

Part two: Pacific Valley School — kept since 1880 on the east side of the highway at Plaskett Creek — and the teachers who came to the edge of the world.

The people of Sand Dollar Beach

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.

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