By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The 1853 Mormon Road up Twin Creek Canyon from San Bernardino was washed out by the 1862 Noachian Flood, and that route was abandoned after flooding out again in 1867. This led to Edward Daley constructing his toll road, which...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Mountain Turnpike, or the Twin and City Creek Road, was a narrow (12-foot-wide) and steep road (10 to 15-percent grades), which was known as the Daley Canyon Toll Road because Edward Daley engineered and built it. It took a...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Weather often changes history. One early story of unappreciated weather occurred in 1862 when the Noachian Deluge wiped out many of the improvements made by the Mormon Colony in San Bernardino and other California areas. The...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The recent weather reminded me of a snowstorm from 1919, when Samuel Dillin (De-Lynn) had an unusual snowstorm experience. Dillin had a fatal respiratory illness diagnosis in 1917 and came to the mountains to peacefully die,...
By Rhea Frances-Tetley Historian Three wagon trains with 437 Mormons were sent to establish a colony in Southern California by religious leader Brigham Young in 1851. They purchased the Ranchero San Bernardino from the Lugo family for $77,500. When the Mormon...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian During the Ranchero Days of Southern California, under Mexican rule, 23-year-old Louisiana-born Daniel Sexton II arrived on Nov. 5, 1841, with the John Rowland and William Workman party. The Rowland-Workman group was among the...
