How Weirick Road off 15 Freeway in Riverside County got its name – Press Enterprise

If you head south from Corona on the 15 Freeway, one off-ramp you’ll notice in the Dos Lagos area is for Weirick Road. This is another county road named for one of the many supervisors the county has had in its more than 130-year history

Arthur Murray Weirick was born in Helena, Montana, on Oct. 16, 1893. He spent his formative years in Montana, and by 1916 was studying in the Wharton School of Finance. When the United States entered World War I, he enlisted in the new Army Air Corps. He saw action in France, where he was wounded in a dogfight with elements of the Red Baron’s elite aviators.

After he returned from war, he married Margaret Mae Lowry, who was also from Montana. In 1923, the newlyweds moved to Los Angeles, where Weirick worked mainly as an investment banker and citrus grower.

In 1943, he saw an advertisement for land in Corona, purchased it, and moved to that city to continue citrus growing. It is at this time he began a career as a director with the Western Municipal Water District.

Weirick was well-known by the time he and his family moved to Corona. He was in Corona for barely three years when he was appointed in October 1946 to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors by Gov. Earl Warren. Weirick was replacing the previous supervisor, who resigned to move to Placerville.

Politics either did not suit Weirick or he had other plans, because he did not run for reelection when his term was ending in 1948. His last day on the Board was Jan. 3, 1949.

Around 1964, while still serving as director of the Western Municipal Water District, Weirick was honored by having a new road in the Temescal Valley named for him.

Early on, it was evident this would be a main road because it was during that time the freeway through the region was being planned and built. Many references in the newspapers of the time attest to Weirick Road being an off-ramp of the soon-to-be new freeway.