Merced Grove

Locally, the issue carries added weight because the property, known as Hazel Green Ranch, has deep historical roots.

The site was part of the eighteen forty-eight Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, served as a stop along the Coulterville Free Trail in eighteen fifty-seven, and includes the route of old Coulterville Road as it continues past Merced Grove toward Yosemite Valley.

The Curry family once owned the ranch, and in nineteen thirty-eight sold forty acres to the federal government for the realignment of Highway one hundred and twenty.

[news jingle] The fourteenth Mariposa Farms and Ranches tour is coming up this Saturday, October tenth, from ten AM to five PM, with five locations on the schedule: Foxtail Farm, Sierra Foothill Conservancy, Folktale Country Homestead, Betty Massey's Water Catchment, and Orem Vineyard.