unique structure in the valley. This ranch never upgraded to a Grade A dairy 

 because the owners switched to a sheep operation in the 1930s. One corner 

 shed room of the barn, once used as a stable, was removed around 1990 because 

 of advanced deterioration. 



c. Water Tower (OV-09.04) 



A 700-gallon wood water tank, sitting on a wooden tower about twenty 

 feet above the ground, was built prior to 1900. The base, of concrete piers, 

 measured 12' square. The tower was surrounded by three old eucalyptus trees 

 which appeared to hold it up; it had long been out of use and had severe 

 structural deterioration. 



d. Ranch Road (OV-09.06) 



The one-mile road to the Lupton Ranch dates from 1865 or earlier. It 

 may have been developed by Thomas Longley as an access between his ridgetop 

 home and the Olds residences in the valley in the late 1850s. The lower .25 

 mile of the road has been realigned and altered, although the original remains 

 mostly intact but unused (the Olema/Five Brooks school house stood at the foot 

 of this alignment until the 1930s). The upper part that leads to the ranch past 

 the newer Lupton home is original, leading through a bay laurel forest to the 

 pastures of the Lupton Ranch and the old ranch complex. Recent grading by an 

 apparently unskilled bulldozer operator has widened portions of the road by 

 about five feet. 



e. Trees 



Three large eucalyptus trees surround the site of the old water tower at 

 the ranch complex. Five very large eucalyptus trees, planted in a row, mark 

 the site of the ridgetop home and dairy of Thomas Longley. They were 

 reportedly planted about 1860. All of these trees were bitten by cold weather 

 in late 1990, but have survived. 



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