The Arrowhead Villas Homeowners Association recently held a well-attended end of summer get together at the Tudor House. At the event, they celebrated the building of the first homes in the Arrowhead Villas area. These two homes were built prior to the area being...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer The Rim of the World Historical Society held a special tour of historic Pine Crest on Sunday, Sept. 21 with past president and historian Bill Pumford giving a PowerPoint presentation on the history of Dr. John Baylis and his...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer The Mountain History Museum is hosting a birthday party on Sunday, Aug. 3 for Smokey Bear as he turns 81 years old. Smokey invites all his fans and friends to come to the museum, bringing their cameras and cellphones with...
The investors in the Arrowhead Reservoir Company, which will create Little Bear Lake, (aka Lake Arrowhead) in 1891, were very optimistic. They saw a water project they liked transferring water from the mountains to the valley, which had a budding orchard and...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Arrowhead Reservoir Company (A.R.C.) wanted to copy the successful year-round flow of irrigation water Dr. Barton had created for Redlands, when he built Big Bear Lake a few years before. The A.R.C.’s proposed Little Bear...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Following his birth in Canada, David Seely led a colorful life as a barge pilot on the Mississippi River, marrying in 1846, prospecting for gold with brother Wellington in California in 1849-50 where they were moderately successful and...
