Olds. Longley moved into the house after the Jewell family had moved to their 

 dairy. Rothwell recalled the Olds/Longley farm: 



I can distinctly remember this country farm-house. It 

 was a large two story wooden building similar in 

 appearance to other houses built in the early pioneer 

 days of Marin County. This home was kept neat in 

 appearance by a fresh coat of white-wash each Spring. 

 The surroundings of this home were composed of a 

 very large barn, a wagon and farm implement shed 

 and the dairy where the butter was made. This 

 completed the group of buildings on the ridge. Of 

 course the usual pig sty was set apart from the other 

 buildings. 



I can remember as a very young child [1880s] often 

 climbing with my mother and her other children, one 

 mile up the steep hillside trail through the Shafter- 

 Howard forest, to visit with Mrs. George [sic] Longley 

 and her family .... 



As a child there was one distinctive feature about this 

 place which interested me. It was the first time in 

 my life I had ever seen a well with a hand-pump 

 attached. It fascinated me to see the water siphoned 

 out of the well into a bucket placed under the outlet 

 of the pump. Prior to this time I had always seen 

 water flow freely from a creek or hill-side spring. 

 This home being situated as it was on a crest of a 

 range of hills the water supply could only be obtained 

 by digging a well and depending on the laborious task 

 of operating a hand-pump when a supply of water was 

 needed. There was no windmill or water tank 

 connected with this well. 91 



British-born Thomas Longley came to California in 1857 and worked as a 

 miller in San Francisco before settling in the Olema area. He operated a dairy 

 in 1860, at an unknown but nearby location, making 1333 pounds of butter that 

 year and employing two hired hands. Longley didn't own any livestock that 

 year except for a horse; he may have made butter for Daniel Olds, who owned 

 twenty milk cows but made no butter himself. Around 1865 Longley moved to 



91 Rothwell, Pioneering, pp. 231-232. 



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