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...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Several families are traveling together in heavily laden wagons to take a multi-week camping trip to Kuffel Canyon near Little Bear Valley to escape the sizzling late-summer, early-fall days of 1905. The horse-drawn wagons are...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Late summer and early fall are usually sizzling in the San Bernardino Valley with hot Santa Ana winds. In 1905, agriculture was the leading industry, so the crops grew and residents sweltered in the heat. Some wanted to...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Little Bear Reservoir project by the Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Company (A.R.&P.C.) was moving forward despite Hesperia, located on the northside of the mountains to where the water naturally flows, suing them,...
