Jean Baptiste Paulin Couperin
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Jean Baptiste Paulin Couperin (a.k.a. Peter Coutts) arrived in Mayfield in 1875 and acquired 1,400 acres bounded on the south by Page Mill Road and on the east by El Camino Real. Couperin was a political exile from France who went by the name Peter Coutts in Mayfield. He was the cause of much rumor and speculation in the small town, and it wasn't until nearly 50 years after the Frenchman showed up in town that his neighbors found out he was actually Couperin.
Couperin raised cattle on his land and developed an irrigation system that included the brick tower that still stands on the old section of Page Mill Road.
In 1881, Couperin returned with his family to France. The political climate had changed.
