| Date | Event |
| 1916 | Pebble Beach Golf Links under construction. |
| The Irish poet William Butler Yeats begins renovation of his tower, Túr Ballylee. | |
| 1917 | April: America enters the Great War |
| June?: Manager of Carmel Point Golf Course goes off to war. Course abandoned. | |
| 1918 | November: The Great War ends. |
| 1919 | February: Pebble Beach Golf Links opens for business |
| Carmel Point Golf Course subdivided for residential development. Robin & Una purchase 16 lots. | |
| May: Robin & Una contract prominent Carmel builder Mike Murphy to build them a cottage on a stony prominence (a ‘tor’ at Carmel Point. Robin works as an stonemason’s apprentice on the project. | |
| August: Construction complete. Jefferses move in to their new home. | |
| Robin begins to engage in stonemasonry on his own; starts work on a garage for the family car. | |
| 1920 | Robin completes garage and a low stone wall that defines a small yard; begins work on Hawk Tower. |
| 1924 | Tamar and Other Poems printed |
| Hawk Tower stonework completed | |
| 1925 | Hawk Tower woodwork completed |
| Robin begins work on an extension: a dining hall in the form of an English country tavern. | |
| 1930 | Dining hall completed. This was the last construction project that Robinson Jeffers would complete. |