On this site in 1902

The Bee Rock Social and Improvement Club was built. This one acre parcel was deeded for $10.00 by the pioneer Lynch Family, for the sole purpose of a public hall.

Many meetings, weddings and dances were held here until 1953. There were no lakes at that time, as Lake Nacimiento was not finished until 1957, and Lake San Antonio was finished in the 1960’s.

Before this time picnics and meetings were held under the shade of Bee Rock (just up the road on Interlake Road on the right hand side). With its grove of trees for shade and a natural spring at its base, it was the perfect picnic spot.

This entire Canyon is named Bee Rock Canyon, due to that rock mountain with the many bees living in it! So many that when a young man named Henry Kahl returned from the Confederate army after the civil war he decided he wanted some honey! He had an idea to blow up part of the rock with dynamite. Unfortunately the honey had so much grit in it from the blast it was inedible! The homesteaders laughed about that for years.

You can still see where the rocks were blasted.