Stevens Ranch Complex, State Route 101, Coyote, Santa Clara County, CA

Significance: The Stevens Ranch Complex includes orchards, buildings, and fruit drying equipment that illustrate agricultural development in Santa Clara County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The early dehydrater and tram tracks on the ranch represented innovations in fruit drying technology when they were installed. The Stevens family were prominent and successful orchardists and operated drying facilities that served nearby farms.
Survey number: HABS CA-2018
Building/structure dates: ca. 1856 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 18t3 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1915 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1928 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1955 Subsequent Work