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“San Mateo County Gazette,” July 10, 1875 “Alex Rae (‘Scotty’) , well known and popular agent of Goodall, Nelson and Perkins at Pigeon Point Landing as shot and instantly killed by men named Wolf and three others purported to be … Continue reading →

Pacific Steamship Company at Pigeon Point: These are handwritten notes obviously from a source like a newspaper which I failed to identify. —————————- Pacific Coast Steamship (PCS) leased Pigeon Point for ten years and erected a chute. At the end … Continue reading →

From the “San Mateo County Gazette,” May 1, 1875 “Last Sunday afternoon at half past 5, Augustus Haskins, a youth 22 years of age, shot and killed Charles Johnson in the main street of Pescadero. Johnson had the reputation of … Continue reading →

Other Murders–Here’s where I go back in time to bring to light other murders, extremely few in number, that occurred in Pescadero. The details, the stories from the old newspapers, give readers a feeling for what the town was like. … Continue reading →

From the “Half Moon Bay Review & Pescadero Pebble,” 1957 “Construction work has started on the long awaited $2,000,000 Campbell Soup Company mushroom plant at Gazos Creek, south of Pescadero. “The plant, originally announced two years ago, will be the … Continue reading →

The Poem of Pescadero by Mrs. H.L. Good “Like a bird’s nest in an old oak tree, Or a pearl within a shell, Lies the village Pescadero, Near where restless seawaves dwell Round her rise the rugged hilltops, And beside … Continue reading →

A sweet story from the Redwood City Tribune, 1924: “Over 50 years ago a subscriber to a well-known farm journal of California picked up an incomplete part of a poem about Pescadero on Market Street in San Francisco. Finding the … Continue reading →

This may get complicated. I will try to explain. Carl Coburn was the adopted nephew of Loren Coburn, a kind of replacement “son”–and a terrible disappointment. Some years earlier, Carl was involved in a messy financial scandal that took down … Continue reading →