PC: National Park Service
In 1910, Jack Chew was searching for a good home for both his family and his cattle. In 1966, Jack’s son, Rial Chew, sold the 1,900 acres of the ranch within the monument to the National Park Service.
The family planted orchards and gardens and dug irrigation ditches, and the home sustained them for more than half a century, according to the National Park Service. The page says he found it in the area known as Pool Creek. It states that Pool Creek was settled at a time and in a place where “self-reliance was as necessary as water”. The creek provided the raw materials the Chew family needed to build their future, according to the page. The family made a home that sustained them for more than half a century, according to the page.
He found it at Pool Creek, within Dinosaur National Monument. The service describes the place as home to three generations of Chews and notes its critical water sources, good winter grazing and timber. It lists the site’s location as Echo Park Road within Dinosaur National Monument and gives its significance as a historic site. The NPS describes the area as home to three generations of Chews. The Chew family planted orchards and gardens during their time at Pool Creek. The page states that they also dug irrigation ditches, which it lists alongside the planting of orchards and gardens. The result of hard work and nature’s support. This is the length of time the service gives for the family’s life at Pool Creek.