New Community Center and Park Moving Forward
If you have not been down Haddock St. past the school lately we encourage you to go take a look at the new improved Winchester-Domenigoni Park. The new community center is rising upwards and as you reach the end of the street you can see where the new Riverside County Fire Station #35 will be soon. Let your mind envision the ballfields, soccer field and children play as families picnic on the grassy areas of the park. Plans are under way on what the interior of the community center will look like. If you have any suggestions please forward them to the society or to the Winchester Homeowners Association at the address in the previous article. This park is a co-operative effort between Valley-Wide Parks and Recreation, Eastern Municipal Water District, County of Riverside, and the community of Winchester.
Help Wanted & Needs List
Restoration or Finish Carpenter: We are looking for someone to finish restoring the upstairs windows in the Museum. We are trying to duplicate what was there in 1891. We can spend up to $300 per window to do the work.
Termite Terminator: Well folks the Museum has termites. We need someone to tent the house and eliminate the critters. Believe me these are in no way on the Endangered Species List.
$12,000: Yes that's $12,000. This is the quote we received from the engineer for plans for retrofitting the Museum against an earthquake.
Painter: We need some quotes on painting the windows and doors we have restored so far.
Heavy Duty Chipper: We have some dead limbs and pieces of trees to be shredded or chipped. You provide the machine and manpower and if you desire you keep the finished shredded trees.
Display Cases: We need some display cases that are able to be locked and preferably old to show off our history. We also need bookcases both new and old. Another item in this area we need is some folding tables preferably the 8 foot type.
Identification Needed
We need your help in identifying the following pictures. I f you can provide us with a place, year, or family name it would be appreciated. Hope these pictures at least jog some memories.
This picture was taken sometime before 1893 from the data on the back of the picture. The back has the following information:
Patterson House Museum Horse Friendly
If you happen to be out riding on a Saturday or Sunday between 11:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. we have two very old hitching posts you can tie up to and visit the museum. The posts are solid granite and show the marks of where they were broken apart by chisels. The posts were queried in Winchester just south and west of Winchester Road and Salt Creek. Come by and see a part of the community history.
Tidbits From Our Past
10/11/1894 Dr. Rainey went to the county seat this morning to fight the Brown & Alcorn insolvency case which is to come up before Judge Noyes. This is one of the rankest cases of the kind that ever went into court and we hope the "couplet" will not be allowed to get behind this solvency fence.
10/11/1894 At the meeting of the directors of the San Jacinto and Pleasant Valley Irrigation district, held last week, the tax levy was fixed at $1.70 on each $100 valuation to raise $8000 voted by the people, and $2.44 on each $100 valuation to provide for the payment of interest on bonds.
11/01/1894 The Winchester Recorder says that real estate in the San Jacinto and Pleasant Valley irrigation district is moving. An important deal recently made is the sale of forty acres of R. C. Brinkerhoff's land to F. T. Boyd and brother. The gentlemen are recently from the East, and are young men who will probably settle on the land and improve it. The property is situated within the irrigation district, west of F. T. Lindenberger's Olive Green ranch. The Riverside County Land Company is doing some effective work.
11/01/1894 Mrs. F. L. Loveland of Winchester, who recently returned from a six months visit to Iowa, was in town(San Jacinto) yesterday visiting friends.
11/08/1894 Edward McEuen lies seriously ill at the residence of O. G. McEuen of cirrhosis of the liver.
11/22/1894 J. W. Priser has purchased a ten-acre tract near the Gibbell place and is preparing to put up a house and otherwise improve his property. His first application for water was made last week --Winchester Recorder
11/22/1894 County Surveyor Pearson will visit the scene of work where the San Jacinto and Pleasant Valley irrigation district is developing water, tomorrow. Mr. Pearson, who is engineer for the district, makes regular trips out there to note the progress of the work. The district now has the well boring outfit of the Riverside Water Company .out where the task of development is being prosecuted and it will be used in boring wells the district intends to put down. --Enterprise
Thomas Milholland
