San Ramon Valley High School - Kernel Yearbook (Danville, CA)

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Woodside? That belongs to the Woods now, doesn't it? And a fine old place it is, but when Leonard Eddy came into the Sycamore Valley in 1850 there were only deer, and elk, and grizzlies, and the white sycamores there. He had come to California, a forty-niner, but farming was more attractive and proved to be more profitable than mining. Planning to return to Illinois to be married, he sold a part of his place in '55 to Phillip Men- denhall, the original patriarch of all true Cali- fornians, for he was the first American to be mar- ried in California, Mendenhall,built a house ve- ry much like the Eddy home, partly of Georgia pine which he had brought around the Horn. You can measure the age of this house by the height of the ceilings, The same low ones may be seen in eastern houses built before revolutionary times. Perhaps it was the New England style of the house that attracted Mr. Wood for he was of a promin- ent revolutionary family of Concord, Massachus- setts. His great-great-grandfather, Colonel Bar- rett was in command of the minute-men on April 19, 1775. The Mendenhalls had planted a grove of locust trees and Mr. Wood was among the first men who brought the Eucalyptus to California. Miss Charlotte Wood says she remembers the little flat of a hundred blue gums that her father brought to plant on their place. But here I am trying to tell you about the Woods. Miss Wood can do that much better than I, and too, she can show you a collection of relics that are sure to interest you.