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C. O. Barker and his fellow cattlemen constructed Barker Reservoir as a stock pond in the 1880s. The Keys family, who maintained a ranch settlement nearby, enlarged the dam in the 1950s. It now preserved as a historic structure in the national park (Hickman, 1977).
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