Driving Horses for Sale near Templeton, CA

About Templeton, CA

Templeton is located within the former Rancho Paso de Robles Mexican land grant and was founded in 1886 when Chauney Hatch Phillips of the West Coast Land Company sent R.R. Harris to survey 160 acres (0.65 km 2) set aside for a town to exist south of Paso Robles as part of the companies larger purchase of 63,000 acres (250 km 2). This 160 acres (0.65 km 2) was to be laid out in business and residential lots with 5–12 acre parcels, with the town to be named "Crocker" after a Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railroad, Charles F. Crocker, however, Crocker instead chose to name the town "Templeton," after his 2-year-old son, Charles Templeton Crocker. The town was briefly the end of the line for passengers travelling south via the Southern Pacific Railroad from northern California; passengers disembarked at Templeton and were then carried by stagecoach south to San Luis Obispo.