The Plaskett Family

More than a century on the Big Sur coast

Places

Spruce Creek

A creek in the Santa Lucias above the Big Sur coast, inland of Gorda. Reason Plaskett collected the type specimen of Ribes sericeum — the Santa Lucia Gooseberry — here in December 1897; Alice Eastwood described the species from it.

Stories set here

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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.

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Willey Cruikshank - Mining Was His Life

The boy who watched Chinese miners pan Salmon Creek struck the Last Chance mine — and vanished into the Lucias in 1937. His life, told by a woman who knew him.

The people of Spruce Creek

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.