The Macks owned the property (District Lot 4180) and the house which is now on the east side of Highway 33 close to and just above the road. When they had the property, the large barn which now stands in Weddell’s field on the other side of the highway, was in front of their house and the large trailer home was not on the property.

The log house and barn were built by Mr. William Russell Glenn who had purchased the land from Askar Tress who had obtained it as a Crown Grant in 1913. Glenn improved the farm and built a large log barn. He sold the property to the Baillies who were living there when their children attended the first Joe Rich School class in 1922. In 1930, William Mack bought the property, but the Mack family were probably already living there when their children were at the Joe Rich School in 1927. After Billy Mack’s death in 1934, the Macks moved back to Rutland in 1935 and sold their property to the Weddells in 1938.

Mary and Margaret Weddell at the Mack Barn in 1936

Since the Weddells have owned the property, the house has been lived in by Hayden Bubar and his wife Ethel, by the Harder family and more recently by Norman and Gert Fast. Fasts did not live in the Mack house, but in a trailer home which now stands in front of the old log house. Young Terry Fazan now lives in this trailer home.

This property had the large log barn on it which William Glenn had built. When the highway was being moved to its present location, the barn stood on the site of the highway and so had to be gotten rid of. The Department of Highways gave Jim Weddell $5000 for the building and told him they were going to burn it down. He asked if he could keep it if he moved it and they said, “Yes”. He had a big caterpillar and a friend who was working for the Department of Highways had an even bigger one. They both hooked on to the barn and pulled it toward Joe Rich Creek. It started to disintegrate so they left it where it now stands in the field to the south of the highway at the east end of the valley. That was about 40 years ago and the barn still stands in reasonable shape saved at the eleventh hour.

1988 - Macks Barn and Hay Barn which burned down in 1990