Kick off

The photos in this blog capture a piece of Leona Valley history from 1913 till about 1930 and are from various Hall family members. In 1913 my grandfather Frank D Hall bought the 3000 acre St. Anthony Ranch, the valley was then known as Leonis. He changed the name of the ranch to Leona Valley Ranch and set about building a dairy farm, but things didn't work out so well. My dad, also Cliff, grew up on the ranch.
The Leona Valley Town Council has a history document here:
http://leonavalleytowncouncil.org/Documents/LV%20Historical.pdf
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Store and gas station. Leona Valley late 1920's

At corner of Elizabeth Lake Rd and 90th St W.  It is now a feed store.
Thanks, Peggy for the information on this photo.

The historical doc link at beginning of this blog has the following.  1924 saw the start of the Leona Store, Mr. and Mrs. Nolenberger built it and ran it for a short while, later owned by Ralph and Evelyn Schwartz. 
Also I find the 1920 Census has a Herman and Mary Nolenberger in Leona Valley, expect the same, so they were living in area before the store.  That corner lot (Lot 46) was part of Frank's 1922 subdivision and may have been one of the first lots to sell, sometime between 1922 and 1924.


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