3. Historic Resources 



No buildings remain at the Jewell Ranch. The sites of two homesteads 

 are visible. Near the eastern corner of the ranch is what is believed to be the 

 original Jewell home site with its remains of an old terraced orchard and typical 

 windbreaks of cypress and eucalyptus trees. An especially large eucalyptus tree 

 marks the exact eastern corner next to the creek; this tree appears to be about 

 130 years old. A mature stand of eucalyptus trees mark the property boundary 

 for about 100 yards from this corner. On the hill directly south of this older 

 site is the more recent ranch site, reached by a dirt road from the railroad 

 grade to the ridgetop, now known as the Jewell Trail. There is a connector 

 road leading from the old site to the upper site. The ranch site has four stands 

 of eucalyptus in short rows, remains of an orchard, a bench cut into the hillside, 

 apparently for a barn, and what appears to be old sheep fencing on a small 

 wooded knoll above the barn site. A trace of a road leaves this site to what 

 appears to be the remains of a hunting camp in the nearby woods. Boundary 

 fences are intact, with short sections of the older split picket fences remaining. 



4. Historic Significance of the Jewell Ranch 



The former Jewell Ranch has significance as a contributor to the Olema 

 Valley dairy district, but the absence of historic resources leaves it with little 

 historic integrity. Those resources with integrity are the Jewell Trail and the 

 railroad grade, as well as landscape features such as the building sites, fence 

 lines and windbreak trees. 



Historic Features 



1. Ranch roads (Jewell Trail) 



2. NWP Railroad Grade 



3. Old orchard 



4. Windbreak trees (both sites) 



5. Boundary fences 



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