By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Company (A.R.&P.C.) had the task of hauling hundreds of tons of cement and other construction materials to build the reinforced cement core wall for the Little Bear Valley dam to send...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Arrowhead Reservoir Company (ARC) was funded by a Cincinnati syndicate headed by millionaires James Mooney and soap baron James Gamble of Proctor and Gamble in 1891. The ARC purchased 4,500 acres of land around Little Bear,...
Adolph Koebig, San Bernardino’s city engineer, was envious of the Bear Valley Reservoir and Irrigation Company, which had built a $75,000 dam in Big Bear Valley in 1884, securing a year-round steady supply of water, allowing the Redlands agriculture industry to...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian As this unusual summer ends, let’s look back at the summer of 1949 and see how people who came up the mountain enjoyed the mountains back then. What did the mountains offer to visitors, besides lakes and hiking, all of which...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Recreational activities have abounded in the San Bernardino Mountains since people first visited here. Labor Day weekend was always the final big holiday for vacationers, since school would start that next week. Around the turn...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Green Valley Tollhouse and Hotel was built by Bear Valley Wagon Toll Road builders Gus Knight Jr. and brother-in-law J.R. Metcalf. They hired George and Demaris Tillitt in 1903 to operate the tollhouse and maintain the dirt...
