Jewell family dairy had been located at the upper site from the beginning, with 

 the home and orchard situated by the railroad tracks; the lower site does not 

 appear to be large enough for a dairy operation of any size, and the construction 

 of the railroad would have eliminated most of the level land. Omar Jewell may 

 have moved uphill after selling the right-of-way. The trees at the uphill site do 

 not appear to be as old as those at the lower site, but the grading on the 

 hillside where a barn may have stood appears to be hand-graded and therefore 

 is likely pre-1920s. By the time Roberts Dairy developed the Grade A dairy 

 operation, the entire ranch was located at the upper site, with no structures 

 known to remain below. At some point a one-story house was built at the 

 upper site, near the Grade A barn and an adjacent shed. It replaced the older 

 two-story house that had apparently burned down. 222 



According to a long-time neighbor, Sayles Turney ran the dairy ranch in 

 the early 1940s, then the Shanks brothers took over for about four years. 

 Frank and Rita Morris were reportedly the last family to milk cows there, 

 during the 1950s. For many years neighboring ranchers Armin and Frank 

 Truttman rented the land for grazing their dairy cows and had a group called 

 the Jewell Hunting Club. In 1958 the owners sold about 144 acres of wooded 

 land on the southern end of the ranch to the California State Park System as 

 an addition to Samuel P. Taylor State Park, reducing the size of the ranch to 

 536.77 acres. In 1961 the Marin Municipal Water District purchased right-of- 

 way along the abandoned railroad grade and laid a major pipeline along the 

 route. 223 



By the time the National Park Service bought the ranch in 1974 the 

 buildings had been abandoned, the water system had ceased to function, and 

 the land used only for grazing. The property was zoned A-2 (one unit allowed 

 per 2 acres), but was considered appropriate for a residential development on 

 15- to 25-acre sites. Lundgren sold the ranch to the federal government in 1974 

 for $362,250 and ran his cattle on it until his death. The remaining buildings, a 

 one-story house and the Grade A barn and shed, were torn down and the land 

 is now used for grazing under a special use permit to Frank and Robert Merz. 224 



222 Field survey by the author; interview with Boyd Stewart. 



223 Interview with Don Mclsaac; Appraisal Report: The Lundgren Ranch. (Sebastopol: Harding 

 Appraisal Co., 1973), p. 29; Rothwell, Pioneering, p. 238. 



224 Appraisal: Lundgren. pp. 1, 7, 9a, 10; tract file (L-1425), tract 05-104, Lundgren, PENS. 



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