 The earliest known European immigrant who settled on the banks of the Brunette River near the present-day North Road in 1860 was William Holmes.According to his daughter Charlotte, local native people gathered at their farm each season to catch and dry their winter supplies of salmon.She remembers that the salmon runs were so huge on the Brunette River that the fish actually crowded each other out of the water and if they had remained stationary "you could have walked across the stream without getting your shoes wet."