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Like so many others, the Grover brothers came West during the Gold Rush. Three of the young men, Whitney, Lyman, and Frealon Grover, moved south from Stockton in the 1860s and set up a lumber mill in partnership with Luther Elsmore and James Linscott. The Grover Mill was located along what is now Glen Haven Road in Soquel. The business expanded in the 1870s with Lyman's son, Dwight, joining the business. The company logged out the redwood timber in this region at Bates Creek, Soquel Creek, and Porter Gulch. Frealon Grover is the man with the white handlebar mustache (towards the front-center) in this 1883 photo. |
