Hunewill Ranch History
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1861
Napoleon Bonaparte Hunewill starts a lumber mill in Buckeye Canyon. He supplies lumber to the town of Bodie hauling the wood across Bridgeport Valley with teams of oxen. Later he moves down into the Bridgeport Valley with his wife Esther and son Frank, raising cattle to supply beef to the miners of Bodie.
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1880
Hunewill Ranch House and Hunewill Barn are constructed.
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1883-1893
Frank marries Alice and they have four children, three of whom survive: Lucile, Camille, and Stanley.
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1931
Stanley marries Lenore and she has the idea to start the guest ranch to help support the cattle business.
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Today
Stanley and LeNore's son, Stan, passed away in 2014. He and his wife, Jan, were involved with the guest ranch operation for the last fifty years and have passed it on to their children: Jeff, Betsy, and Megan. Jan is still very active on the ranch. Jeff, Betsy, and Megan, with their spouses, Denise, Jon, and Bart; as well as their children (the sixth generation) -Blair (Haley), Leslie (Ido), Tyler (Hannah), Dalton (Ashley), Rhiannon, and Aspen, continue the tradition of western hospitality on the Hunewill Ranch. The seventh generation of Hunewills are running around the ranch as well: Tule, Lenore, Leland, Alton, and Anna.