In 1950, Clint Eastwood was a 21-year-old soldier visiting a Carmel dairy ranch; in 1986, he bought it to save it from condo developers

Mission Ranch was once part of a 160-acre property. It became one of California's early dairy farms in the 1850s. It covered a much larger area, with parts subsequently sold to the Carmel School District and the State. Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood's connection to the Carmel area goes back to his time in the US Army.