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Property History
Early owners were Azuriah Starr and John Leslie. Pool Creek, which runs through the property, may have been named for H.J. Pool, who owned a farm at the junction of Leslie and Chalk Hill roads in the late 1800s. The old farmhouse still stands on the property. There are also a usable shed and picturesque other original outbuildings. Early barbed wire cross-fencing strung on hand hewn cedar posts still can be found on the property. Several old trees remain of the original orchard (Gravenstein and other varieties of apples, an Italian plum, fig, walnut and sour cherry trees). Locals say that Leslie Road was the stage road connecting the Healdsburg area with Mark West Station. At some point, the through road was closed, and now terminates at the eastern border of the property. |
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The
Wild Iris Ranch is part of a 164-acre farm first established in the
mid 1800s. The farm, its buildings and orchard appear on maps of
the area from the 1870s. 
