by admin | Dec 20, 2020 | Articles
When driving Highway 285 from C-470 going west, you pass a highway sign just before the Morrison exit telling you this stretch of highway is the Ralph Carr Memorial Highway. Have you ever wondered why it’s memorialized? Or perhaps wondered who Ralph Carr even was?...
by admin | Dec 20, 2020 | Articles
What could a kid born in England in the 1800’s have to do with Willow Springs? Turns out, it’s a big part of us! Arthur Ponsford was born in Southampton, England in 1870. According to Ancestry.com, he immigrated from Liverpool to the United States in 1887 and...
by admin | Dec 20, 2020 | Articles
In last month’s issue of Red Rock Views, we learned about Grace Carron, a widow from Cleveland and her nephew, Bill Watkins, owning the Willow Springs Ranch and Dairy from 1941 to 1947. Willow Springs resident Ron Versaw provided me with a memory book written by...
by admin | Dec 18, 2020 | Articles
My last article had Arthur Ponsford owning Willow Springs Ranch until 1930. Over the next ten years, property owners changed several times. But in 1941 a woman named Grace Carron, a widow from Cleveland, and her nephew, Bill Watkins, bought the place. Dairy farming...
