With the limestone cliffs of the Sierra Ponce, also known as Mesa de Anguilla in the background these remnants of a stone farmhouse are what remains
of the home owned by James and Melissa Bell Sublett, settlers who first came to Castolon in 1913.
Sublett is recognized for introducing mechanized farming into the Big Bend. He installed the area's first irrigation system supplied by a waterwheel.
Sublett hired Mexican laborers to plant the new fields with sorghum, corn, alfalfa, and other livestock feed crops.
By 1918, with the growing farm business in place, Sublett purchased 2,560 acres in this area and called it Grand Canyon Farms.