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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5Y_movie-flats_Lone-Pine-CA.html
Since 1920, hundreds of movies and TV episodes, including Gunga Din, How The West Was Won, Khyber Rifles, Bengal Lancers, and High Sierra, along with, The Lone Ranger and Bonanza, with such stars as Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Gary Coop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5X_the-adobe-wall_Lone-Pine-CA.html
On March 26, 1872 at 2:30AM, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded destroyed 52 out of the 59 buildings in Lone Pine.
Because of the scarcity of building materials the largely immigrant population of Lone Pine, (estimated 250-300), const…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5W_edwards-house_Independence-CA.html
Thomas Edwards came to the Owens Valley in 1863, acquired land and founded the township of Independence. He built this house in 1865. It is the oldest house in Inyo County.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5U_engine-18_Independence-CA.html
An oil burning steam locomotive, built by Baldwin in 1911, was purchased by the Southern Pacific R.R. in 1926 to haul passengers and freight along the 300 miles narrow gauge line, known locality as the "Slim Princess". Jim Butler of Tonopah said, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYS7_amargosa-opera-house_New-Orleans-CA.html
This building was originally built by the Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1924. The original name of the facility was Corkill Hall, and was the social center for Death Valley Junction between 1924 to 1948.
Between the years 1948 to 1967, Corkill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYBU_ballarat_Hazlehurst-CA.html
Ballarat was born in eighteen ninety sevenfollowing the discovery of the Radcliff Minein Pleasant CanyonIts namesake was the famous gold cityin Victoria Australiait was never a very large townIt served Panamint Valley and Death Valleyas a miners s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYBT_ballarat_Hazlehurst-CA.html
Now a ghost town, Ballarat served nearby mining camps from 1897 to 1917. They produced nearly a million in gold. The jail & a few adobe ruins remain. Seldom Seen Slim, it's last resident, was buried in Boothill in 1968. It had a school but no chur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY9C_ballarat_Indio-CA.html
3 1/2 miles east of this point lies Ballarat. Established in 1897 as a mining camp and supply center for the gold and silver mines located on the western slope of the Panamint Mountains. It was named after a well-known gold producing area in Austr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY7M_death-valley-junction_Charleston-CA.html
This historic crossroad has been used by Indians, Clampers, Death Valley 49ers, ranchers, farmers, settlers and tourists. The town was originally called Amargosa. In 1907, the name was changed to Death Valley Junction. At this junction, the Tonopa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMTN_disaster-in-1872_Lone-Pine-CA.html
On the date of March 26, 1872, an earthquake of major proportions shook Owens Valley and nearly destroyed the town of Lone Pine.
Twenty seven persons were killed.
In addition to single burials, 16 of the victims were interred in a common g…