While many of the farms in the area were small operations of 20 acres or less, Swiss-born immigrant Gottlieb Egli and his wife, Rose, farmed over 500 acres.  The Sand Creek Lateral irrigation ditch, a part of the High Line Canal, provided water for crops and livestock.  The Egli property was among the many acquired by the U.S. Army in 1942 for construction of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.  The house and nearby garage are the only surviving pre-World War II structures on the approximately 30-square mile tract of arsenal land now being redeveloped as the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.