100 Piney Paradise OTHER OBSTACLES had to be removed and ditches filled in. A survival of that era is across from St. Mary's-by-the-Sea. It is a wide deep ditch with a drainage pipe projecting a few feet from its rim on Central Avenue, the remaining evidence of a onetime gully that extended in an almost direct line to a huckleberry patch close to the grammar school on Spruce Avenue. Often water gushed through it and made an alluring creek for young fishermen. City records show that many other ditches were hidden to make way for street cars and hundreds of trees were cut down. Roads and streets were in the making. The operator of one of the four horse cars which plied through Pacific Grove-Monterey said, "No pavement until 1912! Cows, horses, pigs, and sheep contentedly roamed the streets." The arboreal influence is noted in the succession of street names in the west end of Pacific Grove: Alder, Chestnut, Laurel, Pine, Locust, Spruce, Cedar, Willow. This is undoubtedly the result of the Retreat meeting of 1878 when it was resolved that all streets and avenues be not named after or by the names of men. However, in the 90's notwithstanding this man-made decision, Trimmer Hill honored Dr. O. S. Trimmer, and the fourth edition of the Pacific Grove Retreat Records, published in 1905, states that a street was named Eardley--the first street in the Grove to be named after a man--Benson A. Eardley, a solid citizen. 41.'".../.-I'.9".1/+7 - 4 g.¥ 9.....71,211*le,XZeSY' I | '-_ 5* 121 201-7,144€, 4 4.- 1 -rt' - - -r-1 .70 1 - 11,+ - Il -1 2«41 1 0 i. 1 1 43.144-43 - 4 1 11 -1,11 . -d T Yir -5-!' 4/y 41 -1 - ; r f : = j Ob-- ,- J, 32- , 1 .7- r 1 11.- f & f) -143' k + ....1> 7 -;I 4 - --1 1 ' 1 - 1 4 1 -- 3 't, ! - 1 _9; yk-15 - -1. 3- - 1,41 Forest Avenue looking toward Monterey Bay in 1885 1*4414*19==UL:lai.'· t'·:,4'i.V!€t;.6r , OCR Text: 100 Piney Paradise OTHER OBSTACLES had to be removed and ditches filled in. A survival of that era is across from St. Mary's-by-the-Sea. It is a wide deep ditch with a drainage pipe projecting a few feet from its rim on Central Avenue, the remaining evidence of a onetime gully that extended in an almost direct line to a huckleberry patch close to the grammar school on Spruce Avenue. Often water gushed through it and made an alluring creek for young fishermen. City records show that many other ditches were hidden to make way for street cars and hundreds of trees were cut down. Roads and streets were in the making. The operator of one of the four horse cars which plied through Pacific Grove-Monterey said, "No pavement until 1912! Cows, horses, pigs, and sheep contentedly roamed the streets." The arboreal influence is noted in the succession of street names in the west end of Pacific Grove: Alder, Chestnut, Laurel, Pine, Locust, Spruce, Cedar, Willow. This is undoubtedly the result of the Retreat meeting of 1878 when it was resolved that all streets and avenues be not named after or by the names of men. However, in the 90's notwithstanding this man-made decision, Trimmer Hill honored Dr. O. S. Trimmer, and the fourth edition of the Pacific Grove Retreat Records, published in 1905, states that a street was named Eardley--the first street in the Grove to be named after a man--Benson A. Eardley, a solid citizen. 41.'".../.-I'.9".1/ 7 - 4 g.¥ 9.....71,211*le,XZeSY' I | '-_ 5* 121 201-7,144€, 4 4.- 1 -rt' - - -r-1 .70 1 - 11, - Il -1 2«41 1 0 i. 1 1 43.144-43 - 4 1 11 -1,11 . -d T Yir -5-!' 4/y 41 -1 - ; r f : = j Ob-- ,- J, 32- , 1 .7- r 1 11.- f & f) -143' k ....1> 7 -;I 4 - --1 1 ' 1 - 1 4 1 -- 3 't, ! - 1 _9; yk-15 - -1. 3- - 1,41 Forest Avenue looking toward Monterey Bay in 1885 1*4414*19==UL:lai.'· t'·:,4'i.V!€t;.6r , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,G through H File names,Heacock,HEACOCK_005.pdf,HEACOCK_005.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: HEACOCK_005.PDF, HEACOCK_005.pdf 1 Page 1