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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V68_the-greenspot-market-historical_Mentone-CA.html
By the mid-nineteenth century the San Bernardino Mountains and Valley were becoming enveloped with civilization. Travelers, merchants, families and explorers were constantly trekking the area, using the old Indian trails and logging roads that had…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UL0_site-of-first-lugonia-now-redlands-district-school-historical_Redlands-CA.html
The name Lugonia was suggested by Charles R. Paine then County Supt. of Schools Trustees C. E. Brink M. H. Crafts W. R. Tolles Teacher, George W. Beattie Monument Erected 1935
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RTY_cucamonga-service-station_Rancho-Cucamonga-CA.html
The Cucamonga Service Station was built by Henry Klusman in 1915 on the State Route which would 10 years later, be designated as U.S. Route 66. This type and style of station is one of the few remaining that once numbered in the thousands and gree…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OYM_stoddard-wells-road_Barstow-CA.html
Previous to the buildings of Stoddard Wells Road, the primary route of travel between the Fish Ponds (present-day Daggett) and Little Meadows (present-day Victorville) was by way of the Mojave River and Lane's Crossing. Although it later became kn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MJ6_historic-cannon_San-Bernardino-CA.html
1818 Mexican Cannon captured in Los Angeles by Americans in 1845 and placed in Fort Benson in 1856 by an independent party in a dispute with Mormons over land title.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L4K_ranching-and-mining_CA.html
Gold and silver discoveries during the mid-1800s brought hundreds of prospectors trekking across the eastern Mojave. Ephemeral camps sprang up throughout the desert as miners discovered copper and silver in nearby mountains. Ranchers moving into h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L4J_railroads-revolutionize-transportation_CA.html
By the late 1800s, transcontinental railroads were uniting the nation. The Southern Pacific was the first to cross the Mojave Desert in 1883. Train routes provided economical transportation for raw materials like minerals and cattle to larger mark…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KRW_who-has-lived-here_CA.html
Humans have lived in the Mojave Desert for perhaps 12,000 years. The earliest humans inhabited this region during times of higher precipitation, when the dry lake beds of today were filled with water. Their projectile points, scrapers, and other s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KRU_a-lost-lake_CA.html
The dry lake bed before you was once part of ancient Lake Mojave. During the last ice age, a cooler and wetter climate produced the Mojave River. It flowed inland about 150 miles from the San Bernardino Mountains, until its waters became trapped h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KRT_movement-in-the-desert_CA.html
To cross the dry and rugged Mojave Desert, early inhabitants developed foot trails traveling from spring to spring. These trails evolved from footpaths to pack routes and then wagon roads as Euro-Americans entered the desert. Railroad routes stray…
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