The Cement Foundation of the Ranch House/Post Office with the Princeton-Summerland road at the leading edge of the trees in background. According to locals, The house was built from wood milled from a sawyer located about a mile east of the homestead. This foundation is all that is left after a fire that swept through the house in the late 1940s. The predominant, noticeable fixture in this ranch lot is a cement wall marking the outside of the old root cellar that is dug into the hillside under the grove of trees. As I drove along the old dirt highway, this foundation and the root cellar was enough to pique my curiosity to stop and investigate.

The old dirt road now known as Princeton-Summerland Road was known as Highway 40 back in the days when this was a major thorough fare - these ruins and other old shacks and log cabins are on a small chunk of land amongst a grove of pine and birch trees.

Located 29 kilometers west of West Summerland on the Princeton-Summerland Road (formerly Highway 40) the settlement here has roots from the late 1800s when first settlers came to the Trout Creek Valley. It is suggested that Post Office Services started here in 1917 by the Chapman family, residents in this location since 1913. The previous name of this village was Princeton Crossing because there was the first crossing of Trout Creek in this location by the old trail of Princeton to Okanagan Lake.
Princeton Crossing opened its Post Office for service on July 1st, 1914. Mrs Florence M. Chapman was Post Master. The Village name was changed to Mazama on February 1, 1917 with Mrs Chapman remaining as Postmaster.