The area's earliest settlers were subsistence farmers, meaning they grew what they needed for their own use. Frank Pendley arrived in 1907. He came to fish in Oak Creek and ended up returning to establish 'squatters rights' on a piece of land, filing for a homestead in 1910. In addition to gardens and orchards, the Pendleys raised cattle and hogs for meat, chickens, horses, turkeys, rabbits and mules for farming.
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