While here, they would stay in the white cottage — now Katie’s home, next to the winery — and always remarked on how beautiful and peaceful it was.
The youngest of Sarah and William’s six children, Maud (Katie’s great grandmother), married William Alston Hayne — who became the namesake for what is now known as the Hayne Vineyard.
During this period, William’s son William Bourn II — also a visionary businessman — used his father’s wealth to further develop the Empire Mine, which turned out to be the largest hard rock gold strike in California. Not content to stop there, he also created San Francisco’s first water and gas utilities.
As part of his legacy, he built two of the most iconic buildings in the Bay Area: the Filoli mansion, and Greystone.