Along the ridge lies a 52-acre farmstead called Ukraina, home of the Ukrainian patriot, writer, and publisher Father Agapius Honcharenko and his wife Albina, who lived there for 43 years in exile from Ukraine. Born in Kiev in 1832, Honcharenko attended Kiev Theological Seminary and entered a monastery at 21, but he was appalled by the Church’s suppression of peasants while monks lived in luxury, leading him to dedicate his work to overthrowing the feudal system in the Russian Empire. His writings and activities gave him a revolutionary reputation among government officials, while freedom fighters and patriots around the world respected him. Facing hardships that included arrest warrants and death threats, he escaped to New York, moved to San Francisco in 1867 while being stalked by Czarist police, and in 1873 sought sanctuary on the remote farm in the Hayward Hills after being tracked to the West. For decades, he and Albina quietly tended their orchards there while Honcharenko remained a champion of the underclasses. He died in 1916, a year after Albina’s death.