Very few structures remain in the town site of Pepperwood, since many were washed away by the big flood of 1955 and most of the rest in the flood of 1964..

During a visit in 1998, we looked around pretty carefully and made many local inquiries, but were unable to find anyone who remembered the Stump.

I received a subsequent Email from Doyle Metheny, at that time the owner of the Eternal Tree House in Redcrest, who wrote that the stump had been dynamited in the late 40s, and that he knew the son of the man who had been hired to do the job.

During our Easter 2001 trip, we visited with him and he sent us along to Mr. Dave Stockton who told us that he was 6 years old at the time, but that his father was hired to blow up the stump in 1947 so that more motel rooms could be built at the Par-a-Dise Motel which was located about a mile north of Pepperwood.