Lake Barcroft History Book

Lake Barcroft Estates in the early 50’s. There were only a few homes in the South Area and none in the Middle and North Areas. Notice the deltas of silt
at the two stream inlets.
published in the Lake Barcroft Directory, a portion of which is
quoted below.
Looking back on the early days when a not-very-hardy handful of
us bought lots and built houses, we can remember the maps that
showed nice paved roads where there were no roads; sketches of
white sandy beaches where there were no beaches; gas mains on the
charts where there was no gas—and no energy shortage to blame
it on either.
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Much of what we saw was in the fertile mind of that super
salesman, Colonel Joseph V. Barger. All you had to do with that
guy was show up at his office and you were as good as sold, money
or no money. He made it clear he was only there to do favors for
nice people who stopped by and showed an interest in Lake
Barcroft. When the sales pitch ended and we had been relieved of a
$200 down payment on a $10,000 or $12,000 lot, we may have
been a little shaken—but we were sure our dreams of owning a
house on a lake had really come true.