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is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California. It has a population of about 800. The ZIP Code is 92341 and the community is inside area code 909.
Highland Lumber builds City Creek Toll Rd. (Hwy 330) Took lumber from Fredalba to Molina Box Factory to make orange crates.
Horse trail from Fredalba lumber camp to Big Bear widened into toll wagon road by Bear Valley Wagon Rd. Co.Eleven-room Toll House was near entrance to campground. They gave the name of Green Valley to the area.
Ben Pitts operates tollhouse each summer. Grows huge potatoes to serve guests. Leaves in 1902 to open hotel in Redlands.
Highland Lumber Co. bought out by Brookings Lumber Co.
Tillitt family settles in Green Valley to run the tollhouse for Bear Valley Wagon Road Co. George and Demaris (May) have three children. For 17 years they run tollhouse, general store, garage, and maintain the road. Send Jefferey Pine seeds to South Africa for British government. They spend winters at house on Del Rosa.
County purchases toll road. Brookings rail reaches almost to Green Valley. (Lighteningdale)
Green Valley area clear-cut except for Tillit’s homestead area (now campground)
Brookings sells out and moves to Oregon. Most of the land bought by Marion Shay for cattle grazing.
Trading Post and gas station built next to tollhouse. Tillitt improves Fawnskin road for automobiles for the county.
Deep Creek Cutoff completed (Hwy 18) to Big Bear. Nicknamed “Arctic Circle”. Cuts off Green Valley.
Harry McMullen (Green Valley Mac) buys up property with idea of the dam; he sells the idea and the land to DeWitt-Blair Co. who are financed by Union Bank. Contractors Clinton, Code, & Hill design the dam, the subdivision, and a water system. Mac was a fishing guide that led parties on horseback to the Deep Creek area.
San Bernardino National Forest created. “Inholdings” remain private property.
Dam finished. Lake is . First lots to sell were the Tillits homestead lots that were saved from the logging in 1912.
Slide fire destroys app. 10% of town, including Fox Lumber and a real estate office.