June 27, 2019 By Ken Brafman, Image from ROWHS Archives TITLE: A NEW DEAL FOR OUR FORESTS: This week’s image is a real photo with a view of the Civilian Conservation Corps tent camp in Miller Canyon, about five miles north of Crestline. The men were assigned bunks while the long building housed the mess …
Category: June 2019
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Jun 20, 2019 By Cindy Justice, Image from Cindy Justice TITLE: MARY PUTNAM HENCK EXHIBIT: This week’s image is of the new Mary Putnam Henck exhibit at the Mountain History Museum on Peninsula Drive in Lake Arrowhead. According to “From the Memories of Putnam Henck,” a memoir written by Mary Henck’s son, the family moved …
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Jun 13, 2019 By Bill Pumford, Image from Nanci Hewitt Atchley Collection TITLE: CEDAR SPRINGS PART II: This week’s image is a 1962 photo of Copeland George’s store in Cedar Springs. During the 1940’s and 1950’s the Cedar Springs area became a popular resort and vacation destination. Many people had part-time cabins and during summer …
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Jun 6, 2019 By Bill Pumford, Image from Nanci Hewitt Atchley Collection TITLE: CEDAR SPRINGS PART I: This week’s image is a photo of Carl and Ella Hewitt around the year 1915. The Hewitts homesteaded the area known at the time as Cedar Springs. That area is now at the bottom of Silverwood Lake but just …