Fall Creek ranch
The ranch now known as The Fall Creek Ranch was first homesteaded by John Grieve, probably in the early 1880s or before. Grieve built his log house about two hundred yards west of the present house near a spring.
About 1890 the Grieve homestead was sold to J. C. Moore of Ashland, Oregon. In about 1894 my father, Thos. J. Wright, was married to Moore's daughter, Miss Mary Moore in the house that Grieve built. Moore sold the place to Fred Frain in about 1895, about the time that Frain married Mrs. Ida Close, another daughter of Moore.
Some time after Frain bought the place he located a homestead along the east branch of Fall Creek and joining the place he had bought from Moore. Frain built a log house on his homestead and lived there a few years, then he built the present house some forty-five years ago, his carpenter was Perry Landing who then lived near the mouth of Keene Creek.
After Mr. and Mrs. Frain had lived there for more than fifty years and also had built the barn and made several improvements and bought other land under trying conditions of early days, their advanced age sort of forced them to sell. It was in 1947 when they sold out everything to Clyde and Mildred Laird of Walnut Creek, California which thereafter became known as The Gall Creek Ranch.
George Wright descriptions