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George Ames - Bunk House Hero
George Ames was fourteen when he hired on with Jim Prewitt — and the bunkhouse tales grew from there.
Stories
True stories of the Plasketts and their neighbors — bears and gold, shipwrecks and weddings — drawn from letters, newspapers, and family memory.
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Victor Girards Fabulous Mountain Empire
Victor Girard built a redwood-pole palace above Lime Kiln in 1925. His empire lasted a decade.
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Girard Caught by Game Warden with Venison
Girard's men shot deer whenever he pleased — until a game warden checked what he was driving home to Los Angeles.
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First Coast School Built Without Nails
The Redwood School opened in 1878 in a building Michael Dani notched together without a single nail.
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Reason and Robert Plaskett Build St Lukes Church
The Plaskett brothers crossed the mountains to raise St. Luke's at Jolon, stained glass and all, in 1879.
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Mexican Independence Day Fiestas at Jolon
For three days every September, Jolon filled with music, horses and lace for Mexican Independence Day.
gold mines
The Arrastra on Plaskett Creek
Built by William Lucas Plaskett about 1885 and turned by a water wheel on the creek, the family arrastra ground the Western Star's gold ore — and its timbers, iron and basin are still there.
place history
The Marvelous Shut-In Valley (San Francisco Call, 1897)
The earliest published account of Pacific Valley — a full-page 1897 San Francisco Call feature on 'the Marvelous Shut-In Valley,' the unexplored pocket of the Coast Range that William Lucas Plaskett found, settled, and never left.
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