By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The weather has always shaped the way Christmas has been celebrated here “on the heights,” as the area was referred to in the 1800s. Those earliest years do not have many Christmas events recorded, since the sawmills were closed...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The official dedication of the 101-mile Rim of the World Drive occurred on Sunday, July 18, 1915 – 110 years ago. The dedication ceremony took place below Strawberry Peak in Pinecrest’s South Park. The event was attended by 101...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY HISTORIAN An historic day in the San Bernardino Mountains was July 18, 1915, which was remembered in 2009 and celebrated in 2015. On that date in 1915, the opening of the Rim of the World Road was celebrated. That initiated full-time...
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...
