By Rhea-Frances Tetley Historian The year 1914 was a turning point in world and San Bernardino Mountains history. Everything locally was about to change. The Little Bear Reservoir project being constructed by the Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Company had just...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The winter of 1908-1909 started out with a foot of snow in December and then seven inches of rain on Jan. 21, with snowfall after snowfall for weeks afterward. Two hundred families in Redlands already owned automobiles in 1909....
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Camping, vacationing, lumbering and water resources were the main ways the forest and mountains were expected to be used, according to John S. McGroarty's 1914 book, The History of Southern California. The book describes the...
RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian People always have enjoyed treating themselves with tasty snacks. One of the reasons the Serrano Indians stayed in the mountains through the fall was the autumn harvesting of pinyon nuts. They’d return to the desert for the winter,...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian In 1905, the county purchased some of the mountains’ lumber roads and opened them to free public wagon use. As the automobile age was beginning, in 1908 “machine owners,” asked to use those mountain roads, but the county said...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian During the 1880s in the area now known as Cedar Glen, the Hanks Sawmill was operating on the creek. John Hook homesteaded the upper end of that creek in 1882, building his home there, naming it Hook Creek, which flows into Deep...
