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Reproduced
essentially verbatim (some spelling corrections) from a copy of the
article
found in The Sentinel. The Sentinel was an Oak View newspaper
whose address was:
P.O. Box 504 - MI 9-1754 It was published weekly on Thursday by
Chuck and Faye Hill,
with advertising by Joe Colville
Thursday,
January 29, 1959, THE OAK VIEW SENTINEL
HISTORY OF THE VALLEY
THE ROAD TO OJAI
by Percy G. Watkins
(Ed. Note: Mr. Watkins concludes his
recollections of the road to Nordhoff from Ventura at the turn
of the century.)
The land owned by Judge Brown, reaching from the San Antonio Creek
to the Grade Road, now belongs to Mr. B. E. McCormick, a resident of
Ventura. Only a short distance marks its frontage on Highway 399
from where the new pipe line of V.R.M.W.D. crosses the road at Santa
Ana Vista by the road that leads to Skyline Estates.
Stevens Land Co. of Los Angeles owned the land which
now covers part of Mira Monte, Midway Acres, and land to the Krotona
Institute property, and part of the Ventura River bottom to Meiners
Ranch (now Meiners Oaks). An abandoned home stood across the
railroad tracks from the location of the Mira Monte School.
The ranch north of the Feraud property ( mentioned last
week ) belonged to a Mrs. Barrett. She had two children. Louie was
the older, was married and had two children. Charles attended the
Arnaz School with his cousin Naude Jackson who lived with the
family.
---------- some of the article is not copied in the photocopy
from the Oak View library.
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