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.
The Turnbull Ruins, a coquina block foundation overlooking the Intracoastal, represents the colonization by Andrew Turnbull from 1766-1777. It's believed that he attempted to build his personal mansion on these coquina remains. A foundation of sea coquina block was set, but work was never completed.