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Watsonville >
Henry Miller Summer Home Ruins
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Henry Miller Summer Home Ruins
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Type: Outdoors
Status: Abandoned
Accessibility: Easy
Recommendation: not very exciting
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unsafe flooring Poison Ivy, dust, horse poop
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Stone and concrete foundations, walls, staircases. Mount Madonna is said to be haunted by Henry's youngest daughter Sarah. In 1879, while riding with her family here, Sarah's horse stumbled and fell, crushing her. Rangers seem to complain of a mysterious woman's scream at night that they could never find.
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long pants / sleeves towelettes
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Home of Henry Miller, the Cattle King, who with partner and former rival Charles Lux built an agricultural empire in California's Central Valley, with 5,700 km^2 of land and control of a further 57,000 km^2 of land for some 1 million head of cattle and 100,000 head of sheep. At the time of his death in 1916, Miller was worth some $40 million. Mount Madonna was the Miller family's summer escape, where they would climb and camp out. Like many wealthy robber barons, these wilderness retreats gradually became more ostentatious, with first large tents, then redwood cabins. In 1901, the Millers built a massive seven-bedroom mansion here for $250,000, complete with a ballroom. Henry Miller spent nearly every free dollar he had on land, and after his dead his cattle empire floundered, though his relatives own large cattle farms in the Central Valley to this day. Mount Madonna, said to be named by Miller's Italian craftsman was sold by the family to Santa Clara County as a park. The Miller mansion and bungalow have decayed to their bare stone shells.
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Probably will remain a county park for a long while
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Steed on 5/23/2014 12:29 AM.
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on May 23 14 at 0:29, Steed validated this location on Dec 31 13 at 1:52, Clostridium made this location available on Dec 31 13 at 1:50, Clostridium updated gallery picture Original Home on Dec 31 13 at 1:42, Clostridium added some pictures to a gallery on Dec 31 13 at 1:42, Clostridium changed the following: Display Name, Real Name on Dec 31 13 at 1:37, Clostridium updated the main picture on Dec 31 13 at 1:36, Clostridium updated gallery picture Henry Miller Estate on Dec 31 13 at 1:36, Clostridium updated gallery picture Unknown Building Foundation on Dec 31 13 at 1:36, Clostridium updated gallery picture Retaining Walls on Dec 31 13 at 1:36, Clostridium updated gallery picture Main Home
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