Templeman Road

(Robert Templeman's home in Forestville at what is now the corner of Front and First Streets)

Templeman Road was named after Robert Templeman , the pioneer who lived in the Forestville area from before 1900 to 1946. While he still lived in Scotland he signed up for someone to pay his passage to the U.S. The family that did this lived in Minnestota and he worked for them for a year to pay them back. Then he walked across the country to California.

When he got to this area he met and worked for the Bushnells of Vine Hill District. He eventually married one of the daughters, Linda Bushnell. In 1904 Robert and Linda Templeman, with their three children Robert Jr., Clarence “Scotty” and Kenneth bought the Forestville home on the corner of First and Front Streets and the Templeman Ranch on Templeman Road .

(The Clarence "Scotty" Templeman ranch house around 1930.  In the forground is "Scotty" and his son Warren.)

Robert Templeman was raised in Scotland where people lived in little villages where it was safer to be and went from there out to their property to till the soil. Robert lived in the Forestville home in town and drove his team of horses out to the property each morning . He kept the farm property that is now on Templeman Road until he sold it to his son Clarence ”Scotty” Templeman around 1934. The property stayed in the family until the 1970’s.

(This is the Templeman ranch house at about the time the ranch was sold in the 1970s)