Subjects for the web-page. These web-pages contain facts and information on the following: The development of Feudalism, The Crusades, The Magna Carta, The Hundred Years' War, The Black Death, and the disagreements between popes and kings.
MANTECA -- Michael Hat built an. empire from sickly vineyards that catapulted him from class secretary at Ripon. High School to one of the premier growers of wine grapes in California. The center of his empire was to. be a columned mansion he built in 1995 south of Manteca for himself, his wife. and the couple's four children, a mansion worthy of a king.
Stevens inherited Selma at age 21, although quickly became bankrupt and was forced to sell the plantation. In 1896 the property was purchased by Elijah B. White. White commissioned Richmond architecture firm Noland and Baskervill to design a Colonial Revival mansion, which was built between 1900 and 1902 and included part of the earlier house as a kitchen wing.