“Reba Hays Jeffries”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Jeffries and her brother H. Allen Hays belonged to a prominent Newbury Park family which helped the town's commercial growth. She gave the successful low bid for a new post office in August 1966, thereby ensuring that the Newbury Park Post Office remained on Newbury Road. Jeffries became a Notary Public and in 1963 the first woman president of the Newbury Park Chamber of Commerce. She owned a variety of local businesses, including Newbury Park Auto Salvage, Newbury Park Lumber Company, Richfield Gas Station, Jeffries Garage, a storage warehouse, trailer park and a used car lot. Her daughter Susan donated fifty boxes of Jeffries' letters, documents and newspaper articles to the Conejo Valley Historical Society.^[4]

Haigh Road in Newbury Park is named for her grandparents, Cecil- and Cicelie Haigh, the former owners of Conejo Hotel at Timberville.^[5]

Stagecoach Inn

Jeffries was the granddaughter of Cecil Haigh, whom owned Stagecoach Inn (then known as Conejo Hotel at Timberville).^[6] Her mother was born at Stagecoach Inn. The former hotel was a popular stopover for stagecoach travelers riding between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles in the late 19th century.^[7]

When Ventura Freeway was to be expanded in 1964, it was proposed that the Stagecoach Inn would be demolished to make room for the new freeway. The Stagecoach Inn had become a Ventura County Historical Landmark in 1957, and was originally constructed in 1876. Jeffries opposed the proposed demolition, and the Jeffries family donated land for the Stagecoach Inn's relocation. Reba Jeffries and her brother, Allen Hays, had been given hundreds of acres of land in Newbury Park after their father died and the land divided between his two children.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Newbury Park cityhood

Newbury Park had numerous attempts at establishing an independent municipality in the 1960s. The 1963 attempt at a cityhood election failed when Janss’ Rancho Conejo Industrial Park and the Talley Corporation refused to join the efforts. Jeffries told interviewers another reason to why the cityhood election failed: Cityhood supporters had to collect signatures from owners who represented 29% of the land area in Newbury Park. As the efforts only collected signatures from 29% of registered voters in Newbury Park, the petition never reached the ballot box.^[11]

Jeffries was later a prominent opponent of annexation by Thousand Oaks when first proposed in 1967. Jeffries feared for the identity of Newbury Park and was quoted in an interview saying: "It's a shame that the Thousand Oaks personality is overpowering to the extent that Newbury Park is losing its large ranches and freedom."^[12]

References

1. ^Begun, Miriam and Ruthanne Sprankling (2009). Ladies of The Conejo. Conejo Valley Historical Society. Pages 93. {{ISBN|9780972523356}}.
2. ^Begun, Miriam and Ruthanne Sprankling (2009). Ladies of The Conejo. Conejo Valley Historical Society. Pages 91–95. {{ISBN|9780972523356}}.
3. ^Bidwell, Carol A. (1989). The Conejo Valley : Old and New Frontiers. Windsor Publications. Page 54. {{ISBN|9780897812993}}.
4. ^Needham, Beth (1990). Newbury Park. Thousand Oaks, CA: Beth Needham. Page 4.
5. ^Begun, Miriam and Ruthanne Sprankling (2009). Ladies of The Conejo. Newbury Park, CA: Conejo Valley Historical Society. Page 134. {{ISBN|9780972523356}}.
6. ^O’Brien, Tricia (2017). Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village. Arcadia Publishing. Page 17. {{ISBN|9781439661956}}.
7. ^Kath, Laura and Pamela Price (2011). Fun with the Family Southern California: Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids. Rowman & Littlefield. Page 45. {{ISBN|9780762774753}}.
8. ^http://www.wlv.org/Archive/ViewFile/Item/405
9. ^Holzer, Hans (1995). Real Hauntings: America's True Ghost Stories. Barnes & Noble. Page 267. {{ISBN|9781566197328}}.
10. ^Holzer, Hans (1980). Westghosts: The Psychic World of California. Swallow Press. Page 141. {{ISBN|9780804007597}}.
11. ^Bidwell, Carol A. (1989). The Conejo Valley: Old and New Frontiers. Windsor Publications. Page 54. {{ISBN|9780897812993}}.
12. ^Begun, Miriam and Ruthanne Sprankling (2009). Ladies of The Conejo. Conejo Valley Historical Society. Pages 93–94. {{ISBN|9780972523356}}.