...a small place bought in 1917 from the wife of the man who had homesteaded it. The man was John Pearce, an educated architect, who filed on 160 acres on Elkhorn Creek in 1884. Mr Pearce had been educated in England and came to America with is wife, Mary Emily, lovingly called Polly, by all her friends. He was the designer of the First Episcopal Cathedral in Denver, so the story goes. He retired to his ranch or homestead, which he named Coral Rock Ranch, from the large pointed hill in front of the home which he believed resembled a piece of coral. He developed and mapped out and filed on ditches to irrigate the small meadows which followed the course of the Elkhorn Creek. John Pearce had been brought up with the ideas of being a gentleman farmer and that he tried to be. Boys in the neighborhood came to milk his cow, cut wood for the two fireplaces that heated the house, cut and put his hay into his barn, and took it out and fed it. He had checks which arrived periodically from England
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