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From: "Roland Elliott" <>
Subject: Re: Monterey County/Blowing Rock
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:53:27 -0700
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Does anybody have the URL for the "Creeping" population of the US from about
1620 to 1899 etc.R
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From: "Fran Pillsbury" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11 29 AM
Subject: Re: Monterey County/Blowing Rock


There is no instance of Blowing Rock or variants for a land feature in
California in the USGS geonames database.

<http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnisform.html>;

Fran Pillsbury


>Now I need some local geography help. Does anyone know anything of Blowing
>Rock or a
> > Ranch near a mountain (yeh, I know!) in Monterey county? His
> grandfathers were
> > George Slade and Alejandro Bonilla (aka Alexander, or Jose).
>
>Hi Gail,
>
>I checked "Monterey County Place Names" and found a cross-reference to
>"Slade's Hot Springs", apparently a mispelling of "Slate's Hot Springs."
>It was established by THOMAS BENTON SLATE. It is located on the Pacific
>Ocean at Big Sur. It's current name is Esalen Institute.
>
>SLATE married BERSABE SOBERANES, daughter of EZEQUIEL SOBERANES on
>August 26, 1880. SLATE died in 1894.
>
>Author Henry Miller was quoted as saying ".As for me, there are the hot
>sulphur baths at Slade's Springs."
>
>There was no listing for "Blowing Rock."
>
>Hope this helps,
>Anita C.
>Monterey County


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