The Marysville Daily Appeal reported on 4 Mar 1873 that the Senate Amendments to create post roads were to go into effect that day. Those post roads included the route from Redwood City to Pescadero through Searsville and La Honda Junction.
Sacramento Daily Union 18 Oct 1873 |
The Pacific Rural Press announced the opening of a new Grange in La Honda on 25 Jul 1874. There were also granges in Pescadero, Ocean View and San Mateo.
On 28 Nov of that year the following letter which was placed in the Pacific Rural Press gives a picture of farming in the area.
Links and More:
- Hanson's Mill at La Honda 1870
- Live or Die in La Honda
- Mobile Ranger: Old La Honda Road
- The La Honda Voice
- La Honda Historical Society no longer maintained but interesting info, including a 7 part lecture on the history of La Honda.
- La Honda - Wikipedia
- The South of Skyline Story
- Jones, Charles & Susan Friedman, A Separate Place,SF Sierra Club 1974
- La Honda - Arcadia Publishing
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