Don Secundino Robles

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Don Secundino Robles owned most of south Palo Alto in the late 1840s and early 1850s. A blue-eyed Castillian, Robles knew the wisdom of diversifying holdings even then. In 1853 he sold a chunk of his land to Elisha Crosby, who developed Mayfield Farm. The town of Mayfield, located in and around California Avenue, took its name from Crosby's farm.