Wolfe Ranch
Wolfe Ranch Historical District | |
![]() Wolfe Ranch Cabin | |
Location | Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah United States |
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Nearest city | Moab, Utah |
Coordinates | 38°44′15″N 109°31′19″W / 38.73750°N 109.52194°W |
Built | 1888 |
NRHP reference No. | 75000167 |
Added to NRHP | November 20, 1975[1] |
The Wolfe Ranch, also known as Turnbow Cabin, is located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, United States.
John Wesley Wolfe settled in the location in 1888 with his oldest son Fred. A nagging leg injury from the Civil War prompted Wolf to move west from Ohio, looking for a drier climate. He chose this tract of more than 100 acres (0.40 km2) along Salt Wash for its water and grassland - enough for a few cattle. The Wolfes built a one-room cabin, a corral, and a small dam across Salt Wash. For more than a decade they lived alone on the remote ranch. In 1906, Wolf's daughter Flora Stanley, her husband, and their children moved to the ranch.[2] Shocked at the primitive conditions, Stanley convinced her father to build a new cabin with a wood floor.
The ranch on Salt Wash was established about that time under the Bar DX brand. With the arrival of Wolfe's daughter and son-in-law in 1906, the newer, surviving structures were built. However, the Stanley family moved to Moab in 1908. The family sold the ranch to Tommy Larson in 1910 and returned to Ohio.[2] John Wolfe died on October 22, 1913, in Etna, Ohio at the age of eighty-four.
Larson eventually sold the ranch to Marvin Turnbow and his partners, Lester Walker and Stib Beeson. Turnbow helped with the first detailed geologic mapping of the area and partly because of this, early US Geological Survey maps show the name, "Turnbow Cabin."[3] Wolfe's granddaughter, Ester Stanley Rison, visited the ranch in 1970 and provided information about the cabin's early history. As a result, the original name has been restored, and "Wolfe Ranch" appears on more recent maps.
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Back fence on the ranch
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b David B. Loope (May 28, 1974), National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Wolfe Ranch Historic District (pdf), National Park Service
- ^ US Geological Survey Bulletin 1393 "The Geologic Story of Arches National Park"
External links
Media related to Wolfe Ranch at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. UT-141, "Wolfe Ranch, Moab, Grand County, UT", 5 measured drawings
- Arches National Park
- Buildings and structures in Grand County, Utah
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah
- Ranches on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Utah
- National Register of Historic Places in Grand County, Utah
- Utah Registered Historic Place stubs
- Utah geography stubs