Remembering Hacienda del Gato, aka “Tradition Country Club”
April 28th, 2008
Former resident, Emma Cary, shares her memories of one of La Quinta’s most historic properties.
http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080424/NEWS01/804240323/1141/yourtown06

April 29th, 2008 at 8:36 am
And this property, in between the agricultural “Hacienda” era and Tradition, was owned by Fritz Burns, and heirs, and encompassed what is now Fritz Burns Park. Fritz /Burns also owned the 19 acre parcel of land that is now the Fred Wolff Bear Creek Nature Preserve, which the City bought to insure its remaining a wilderness area instead of residential development. Quite a past….