The Miller Estate - Gilroy, CA
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N 37° 00.766 W 121° 42.196
10S E 615362 N 4097074
A plaque about Henry Miller.
Waymark Code: WMQF1V
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/18/2016
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"Henry Miller, “The Cattle King”
With only $6 in his pocket, German immigrant Henry Miller (birth name Heinrich Alfred Kreiser) stepped off the boat in San Francisco in 1850 with one pervading ambition – to labor hard at a business in America. He knew the trade of raising and butchering cattle, so chose ranching.
At the peak of his ranching career, Miller controlled 14.5 million acres of land in California, Oregon and Nevada, where he grazed a million head of cattle and more than a hundred thousand sheep. Along with numerous businesses, ranch estates and a mansion in San Francisco, Mr. Miller owned a summer estate on Mt. Madonna.
Summers on Mt. Madonna
Henry Miller began buying property on Mt. Madonna in the 1870s. Logging had stripped much of the mountain of its dense forest, yielding panorama views of the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Clara Valley.
During their first mountain summers, the Miller family “roughed it”, entertaining visitors in colorful, furnished tents.
In the 1890s, Mr. Miller began building what would become three expansive “bungalows”. He terraced hillsides and planted lawns, flower gardens, an orchard and a vineyard. After Miller’s death in 1916, the estate fell into disrepair. In 1927, the County of Santa Clara began purchasing the property from Miller heirs for parkland."
Group that erected the marker: Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation.
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Pole Line Rd
Gilroy, CA USA
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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