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Immigrant with 75 cents started Spreckels
mansion
The San Francisco mansion in Pacific Heights built by Adolph Spreckels and is now owned by romance novelist Danielle Steel.
One of the sweetest immigrant success stories ever helped provide decent livings for generations of Manteca families and provided area farmers steady incomes for 78 years.