The Alhom/Tirk Pond located in the southeast corner of John McCain and Pleasant Run Road in Colleyville was part of the 150-acre Anton Tirk Farm.  Anton “Tony” Tirk moved his family from Fort Worth to this farm in 1924 after the doctor advised his wife, Frances, to go to the country for her health. Tony, who grew up in the Russian-held sector of Poland, moved to the United States to avoid serving in the Russian Army.  Frances was raised on a farm in the Moravian sector of Czechoslovakia and then moved to the United States with her mother when Frances was 11 years old.  Tony and Frances met at a Sokol picnic in Fort Worth and married in 1916.

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The young European couple traded two houses and an interest in a shoe repair shop in Fort Worth for the John Gabbert Farm.  It was there that the Tirks raised their four children, instilling in them a love for their newfound home along with a deep appreciation of their Eastern European heritage.  One of the four siblings, Lydia, joined the Navy in 1943.  One year later, Lydia was sent to Washington, D.C., where she worked in communications, coding messages. This is where she met Roy Alhom, and they were married in the Navy Chapel in Washington.  They had two sons: Roy Leonard, Jr., who was born in 1948, and Anthony Joseph, who was born in 1949.

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Roy and Lydia Alhom returned to Texas and built their home on 25 acres she inherited from her parents, just off Pleasant Run Road in Colleyville.   They lived there for 40 years. In April 2000, Roy and Lydia lost their youngest son to colon cancer, and in May of the same year, Roy suffered a stroke.  This meant that everything fell on Lydia’s shoulders.  It was too much, so they sold their property and moved into a retirement community in North Richland Hills, Texas.

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In 2005, John Fegan developed the Castleton Manor neighborhood on the 25 acres that was purchased from Roy and Lydia Alhom.  Today, the neighborhood features 29 luxury homes with European and Mediterranean-inspired designs.