WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
CASTLE CLIFF STATION HISTORY
by Heber Jones
He did well in South Africa and built a large fancy home. He fathered L3 children.
For some unexplained reason the mother gathered up part the children and in 1916 migrated to Idaho.
Part of the children went on to Canada .
ln 1926 four of the children moved to Washington County and filed on a homestead at Castle Cliff.
They put up a tent and piped in water from a small spring. The four who moved there were: Susanne M.
Dodge--she was the oldest child and had been married but was single at that time. James Lowe--
Never married; Cecil Bentley Lowe--never married, and Margey Lowe--Never married. Two orphaned
children of their brothers also lived with them part of the time.
The four Lowes built a service station and lived in the back of it. They later built two rock cabins
on the northwest side of the old highway 91. They sold gasoliae, soft drinks, sandwiches and water.
They also had a small fish pond and an enclosure that housed desert creatures such as turtles, gila
monsters, foxes, lizards etc. They sometimes rented one of the cabins.
The Lowes got too old to operate the station and the highway moved to the gorge. The old people
moved to St. ceorge and other places. The service station and cabins were torn down--onlv the
foundations are left.
There is one niece and one nephew left living in this area.
Alice Lowe Corbett, the niece, has written a poem about Castle Cliff.
[This was part of a talk given by Heber Jones on February 27, L996 to the locaL Historical Society.
St. George, Utah.]