(William Brainard) Post found work in upper Carmel Valley at the ranch of James Meadows.

[2] Post earned a reputation as a skilled bear and deer hunter in the Big Sur region and he traded in hides and buckskin.

Charles Moss was establishing a landing and wharf to handle the emerging grain trade in the Salinas Valley in the early 1860s.

Flat bottom boats brought grain from all over the Salinas Valley to the Slough and unloaded at Post’s warehouse.

The success of the shipping point stimulated the growth of Castroville, one of Monterey County's first municipalities, which served to support Moss Landing commerce.

Ezequiel Soberanes operated a prosperous cattle and sheep ranch for 24 years in the area now known as Garrapata State Park.

The Soberanes family, locally famed for their musical talents, offered their hospitality to other ranchers traveling along the coast to Monterey.

The tanbark was harvested from the isolated trees inland, corded, brought out by mule back or using wooden sleds, and loaded by cable onto waiting vessels anchored offshore at Notley's Landing.

The bark was used to manufacture tannic acid, necessary to the growing leather tanning industry located in Santa Cruz, across the bay from Monterey.

[4] In 1920, the 26 mi (42 km) trip from Carmel in a light spring wagon pulled by two horses could be completed in about 11 hours.

[5] The southern region of Monterey County coast was isolated from the few settlements in the north by the steep and rugged terrain.

[6] During the 18th century, the trail began at the Post Ranch and climbed inland to the crest of the coastal ridge.

[15] Long-time Big Sur resident and contractor Sam Trotter built a home there in 1938 at 14 Upper Coastlands.

It is capped by a series of low and steep pitched gable and shed roofs covered with wood shingle.

There were open porches covered by roofs and supported by vertical wood posts on both sides of the building.

[2] The Big Sur Coast Highway was built in front of the house in 1922, necessitating destruction of the original barn and fencing to the north.