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A mention of the Diablo Range in the Tri-Valley is likely to draw the response: What range? Do you mean Mount Diablo?
Mount Diablo is the northern peak of the Diablo Range, which begins at the Carquinez Strait, runs south to include the Altamont Pass near Livermore and Mount Hamilton east of San Jose, and continues through 12 counties for a total of 150 miles to the Antelope Valley. Its highest peak, San Benito Mountain, reaches 5,267 feet.
These vast mountains, hills and valleys are often not recognized as the Diablo Range even as residents traverse them via the Altamont Pass and Pacheco Pass en route to Interstate 5, where the range serves as the backdrop in the West for motorists to Southern California.
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Nathan J. Cuffee in a tintype by William G. Howard. COURTESY EASTVILLE COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Cover of Lords of the Soil.
Nathan J. Cuffee in a tintype by William G. Howard. COURTESY EASTVILLE COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Jacqueline Marks on Feb 1, 2021
My love for local history began when I was archiving the collection at the Sag Harbor Historical Society’s Annie Cooper Boyd House on Main Street.
I spent a lot of afternoons alone there channeling Annie, the girl who rode bareback all the way to the bay and the woman who came back to this cottage as a young widow and remade herself as an artist. I started imagining the ancestral presence of Fannie Tunison, frequent visitor to the cottage and personages from Sag Harbor’s early past like Samuel L’Hommedieu who lived in the brick house down the street.