This pond was part of the 150-acre Anton Tirk Farm in the southeast corners of John McCain and Pleasant Run Road. Anton "Tony" Tirk moved his family from Fort Worth to the farm in 1924 after a doctor advised his wife, Frances, to go to the country for her health. Tony, who grew up in the Russian-held sector of Poland, came to the United States to avoid service in the Russian Army. Frances was raised on a farm in the Moravian sector of Czechoslovakia and moved to the United States with her mother when she was eleven years old. They met at a Sokol picnic in Fort Worth and married in 1916. The couple traded two houses and an interest in a shoe repair shop in Fort Worth for the John Gabbert Farm, where they raised their four children and passed on both a love for their new home and an appreciation of their Eastern European heritage. One daughter, Lydia, joined the Navy in 1943 and a year later was sent to Washington D.C., where she worked in communications coding messages. There she met Roy Alholm, and they married in the Navy chapel in Washington D.C. They had two sons, Roy Leonard Jr., born in 1948, and Anthony Joseph, born in 1949. The couple returned to Texas and built a home on twenty-five acres Lydia inherited from her parents just off Pleasant Run Road in Colleyville, where Roy and Lydia lived for forty years. In April 2000, they lost their younger son to colon cancer, and in May that same year Roy suffered a stroke. Unable to continue under those burdens, they sold the property and moved to the Wellington Retirement Community in North Richland Hills. In 2005, John Fegan developed the Castleton Manor subdivision on the twenty-five acres purchased from the Alholms.