About Spring Ranch
Come stay at the home of lumber and cattle baron William Kent, one of the early settlers of Mendocino.
Kent listened to tales about huge redwood trees in northern California while working in the lumber industry in Maine.
He decided to pack his sawmill on a sailing ship and sail around South America to log these giants.
After starting a successful logging operation in the Big River Basin, Kent realized there was more money in providing beef to the expanding lumber industry than in logging. He then purchased a 1000-acre tract just one mile south of the town of Mendocino and started a dairy, cattle, and sheep ranch.
The property is now called Spring Ranch as the Springs were the last family to operated the ranch.