Pedley Packinghouse

William Pedley, working on behalf of the San Jacinto Land Company, planted hundreds of acres of citrus trees in what we now call the Pedley area. Of course all that fruit needed a way to get to market. Conveniently there was a train route right through Pedley so Mr. Pedley built a packinghouse near the train tracks. This packing house was built with a technique that was very innovative for its time. Many of the walls were made by creating molds on the ground and pouring cement into them. After the cement cured the walls were tilted up into place. This "tilt up" method of construction is very now, but Pedley's packinghouse is thought to be one of the first times that method was used.