Patchen, California, ghost town in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County
One of the most famous drivers on the mountain route was Charley Parkhurst, who drove over the mountain roads about 1868.
Joe Patchen was a Standardbred racehorse foaled in Peabody, Kansas in 1889.
Miriam Patchen (1914–2000) was the wife and muse of poet and novelist Kenneth Patchen, who dedicated each of his more than 40 books to his wife.
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Then they relocated to the West Coast, living in San Francisco and later, towards the end of Patchen's life, they settled into a cottage house in Palo Alto where Patchen died.