gold mines
Dudley Plaskett Discovers Gold at Ocean View
In May 1911 Dudley Plaskett picked solid gold nuggets out of the creek mouth — then followed them upstream.
Stories
True stories of the Plasketts and their neighbors — bears and gold, shipwrecks and weddings — drawn from letters, newspapers, and family memory.
place history
History of Coast Schools Part 1
place history
History of Coast Schools Part 2
place history
Poem King City High School
place history
Poem To Pacific Grove, Salinas and Gonzales Rebekah Lodge
place history
Poem To The Ladies of St. Luke’s Guild – In Memory of Olive
place history
Rugged Monterey Coast Line Is Paradise for Rock Hounds
story
Aerial Applicators Create New Image
story
E.R. Sans, “Coyote Man”, Mill Creek Saw Mill Operator Father of Mabel Plaskett
story
The Bear Hunt Gone Wrong - Men Fall on Bear
The plan was flawless: wait in the tree above the bear's kill. Nobody consulted gravity — or the bear. A true Plaskett Creek comedy, retold.
story
Vasquez the Bandit at Priest Valley
Mrs. Trescony, who lived to 97, remembered the day the bandit Vasquez came to her parents' Priest Valley ranch as a charming young man.
story
The Tres Pinos Massacre
A newspaper account of the night Tiburcio Vasquez's gang broke into Snyder's store at Tres Pinos — and left three men dead.