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Going Inside the Archives to Visit the Pajarito Club

2/3/2021

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“If Ashley hadn't created the Pajarito Club, he would never have met Harold Brook and started the Los Alamos Ranch School. Without that school on the mesa, the Manhattan Project would most likely not have been located here, and all of us would be living somewhere else today!”
A horse-drawn wagon loaded with provisions sits in front of a two-story building. Two people unload the wagon, three stand in the doorway.
Pajarito Club around 1915 or 1916. Peggy Pond Church Collection, Los Alamos Historical Society Photo Archives.

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Ashley Pond – Importance Of A Small Body Of Water

7/13/2020

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Ranch School masters and boys construct the dam in Los Alamos Canyon that created a reservoir to supply water to the school. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Archive
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society
When Peggy Pond Church first saw the site where her father would one day open a school for boys, she was 12 years old. She remembered it in later years as “not much more than a homesteader’s farmhouse, a few sheds, and a muddy puddle of water.”
That mud puddle would one day become a centerpiece for Los Alamos. What were the events in the life of Ashley Pond, the small body of water?
The first mention of the shallow depression that would become Ashley Pond dates to the homesteading era, which began on the Pajarito Plateau in the 1880s. Water was scarce for the homesteaders, who learned dryland farming techniques. They depended on rain water and snowmelt and often hauled water from sources miles away. When rains came, the depression would collect water, and homesteaders nearby would bring their livestock to the temporary pond, a depression that became known as the Stock Watering Tank.

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Before the Los Alamos Ranch School             There Was the Pajarito Club

3/1/2020

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​P-Club Buildings. A guest cottage, the two-story Pond home, and Ashley Pond’s office are seen in
this photograph of the Pajarito Club, c. 1915. (Courtesy of Los Alamos Historical Society Archives)
By Sharon Snyder
Los Alamos Historical Society


​When Ashley Pond Jr.’s attempt to start a ranch school near Watrous, NM, washed
away in a flood in 1904, the disappointment was overwhelming. He returned home
to Detroit and worked for a time in the fledgling automobile industry, but it wasn’t
long before he was drawn back to New Mexico and tried a different venture.



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