Joseph Codoni and Canadian Neil Mclsaac, both of whom would become leading 

 dairymen in the area. 181 



About 1870 Wilder, in partnership with Baldwin, moved to Santa Cruz 

 County and bought a dairy ranch which prospered. Eventually the partners 

 split their holdings, both living to an old age as prominent citizens of the coast. 

 Wilder's ranch north of Santa Cruz has become a part of the state park system, 

 with most of the ranch being preserved and interpreted for the public. 



Upon Rafael Garcia's death in 1866 the remaining lands of Rancho 

 Tomales y Baulines were divided among the heirs. Garcia's widow Maria 

 Loreta received 819 acres at the northern part of the rancho, forming the 

 southern boundary of what became the Genazzi and Gallagher ranches. Mrs. 

 Garcia reportedly lived on a flat area of the ranch above today's Genazzi 

 buildings. In 1873 she was murdered by a jilted lover who then ran to a nearby 

 house and killed himself (see page 31). The land was left to her children, who 

 soon divided the lands into the parcels known today. First, a 100-foot right-of- 

 way along the creek was sold to the North Pacific Coast Railroad Company. 

 Then, two parcels were sold to Emma Shafter Howard, owner of many Point 

 Reyes ranches. Mrs. Howard sold a 124-acre parcel in the northwestern corner 

 of the ranch to her brother-in-law James McMillan Shafter who built a house 

 and dairy, naming it Riverside Farm; Shafter also bought the eastern 330 acres 

 of Mrs. Garcia's holdings. One of Emma Howard's Point Reyes tenants, 

 dairyman William E. Evans, bought 372 acres directly south of the Riverside 

 Farm. 189 



Shafter rented the Riverside Farm to various parties; it was there that 

 his brother William Newton Shafter, who had supervised the vast Shafter dairy 

 empire for many years, lived his last years. By 1892 the Evans parcel had been 

 bought by Candido Righetti, a Swiss dairyman; in 1893 Righetti bought the 

 Riverside Farm for $8,000, forming an almost 500-acre ranch and moving 

 buildings from the Evans site down to the Riverside Farm site where they 

 remain today. Righetti operated a dairy there until renting the ranch to Point 

 Reyes tenant ranchers Peter and Isa Campigli. After the Campiglis retired to 



188 Harrison Santa Cruz County, p. 325; "Abstract . . . Nelson Hotel"; Marin Journal. April 4 

 and September 5, 1868, November 13, 1869, July 9, 1870 and November 7, 1889; Population 

 Schedules, 9th U.S. Census, 1870. 



189 Deeds Book G p. 98, Book H 77, Book K p. 647, Book M pp. 169, 357 & 462, Book Q pp. 

 571 & 621, Book P p. 396, MCRO; Munro-Fraser, Marin County, pp. 245. 



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