This photo, dated from 1936, shows Paul Wright as a young boy sitting on his donkey “Old Joe” in front of the Rock House. His father Edward is on the left and his mother Christine is second from the right. Valley News/Menifee Valley Historical Society photo
A small gathering of Menifee residents and history buffs met to hear about Menifee’s Wright Family Rock House during a slide presentation Saturday, March 16 at the Antelope-Menifee Rural Center presented by the Menifee Valley Historical Association.Making the presentation about Menifee William Wright Rock House off Keller Road in Menifee were docents from the Menifee History Museum on Garbani Road. Slides of the rock house and the Wright family in the 1930s at the house and inside of the house were shown and explained on slides.An excerpt from the Wright family 1973 biography showed young Paul Wright in a family photo sitting on his donkey “Old Joe.” The biography says, “The rock house was built using Rose Quartz mined from nearby Crowfoot Mountain. The walls of the house w
