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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27C1_soda-lake_Santa-Margarita-CA.html
The large basin before you is all that remains of a prehistoric sea. One of the largest undisturbed alkali wetlands in the state, the 3,000 acre lake provides important habitat for migratory birds. With no outlet, the water evaporates, leaving beh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WUJ_pozo-historical_Santa-Margarita-CA.html
In the 1850's Ynocente Garcia and sons recorded claims for the Rancho San Jose which included today's Pozo. In 1878, the area's first postmaster, George Lingo, was refused the name San Jose for the post office and accepted Pozo (Well - in Spanish)…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ7C_painted-rock_Santa-Margarita-CA.html
Rising above the Carrizo Plain is Painted Rock, an important cultural and spiritual site to California's native peoples. Most of the pictographs, or painted images found on Painted Rock, are characteristic of the Chumash who lived on the Channel I…