In 1860 a man named Gleason built the "Ten Mile House" a shanty located on the east side of Santa Cruz Avenue, about where the South Pacific Coast Railroad depot was later constructed, and the current site of the Town Plaza. The hotel was ten miles from San Jose and was the last watering place for rugged lumbermen traveling from San Jose to the Santa Cruz Mountains. In 1862 Gleason sold the property to Henry D. McCobb, who enlarged the building. The San Jose Mercury announced in its April 1-7, 1865 issue that "H.D. McCobb has been commissioned postmaster at Los Gatos, and has entered upon the discharge of his duties by fitting up a neat little triangular office in one corner of the barroom of his hotel, where he will dispense epistolary missives and the latest news to the eager multitude. Truly Los Gatos is getting to be a town of considerable note." When John Lyndon became proprietor in 1868, card tables at the Ten Mile House were always crowded, some players sitting in front of stacks of $20 gold pieces. This photograph is dated 1875. CHC025
Creator
unknown
Repository
Clarence Hamsher Collection
Date
[ ca. 1875]
Type
Photograph
Format
19.11 x 12.22 cm.
Identifier
CHC025
Source
Peggy Conaway, Images of America, Los Gatos p. 35
Language
eng
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