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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYFA_san-bernardino-asistencia_Redlands-CA.html
This branch of San Gabriel Mission was constructed about 1830 on the San Bernardino Rancho. During the 1840s, its buildings were used by Jos? del Carmen Lugo as part of his rancho grant. Later, after its sale to the Mormons, it was occupied by Bis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYB5_the-last-indian-fight-in-southern-california_Lucerne-Valley-CA.html
In January 1867 Indians left their camp east of Chimney Rock to go into the San Bernardino Mountains where they looted and burned several cabins and a sawmill. In retaliation, a possee surprised the Indians at their camp and killed and wounded man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYA3_earp-cottage_Vidal-CA.html
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp1848 - 1929Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp1861 - 1944Earp CottageVidal, CaliforniaThe legendary lawman, gun-fighter, gambler, businessman and miner along with his wife, Josephine, inhabited this "dream - come - true" cottage from…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY9J_marl-springs-seventeenmile-point_Baker-CA.html
Marl SpringsMarl Springs was named in 1854 by Army Surveyor Lt. Amiel Whipple for the clay-like soil around the two waterholes. With the establishment of Fort Mojave in 1859, the Mojave (or Old Government) Road came into existence. Marl Springs be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY9I_soda-springs-zzyzx-mineral-springs_Pioneertown-CA.html
In 1860 the U.S. Army established an outpost at Soda Springs to protect government supplies from Indians. Later, miners processed the adjacent lake minerals. In 1906 the Tonopah & Tidewater railroad arrived. From 1944 to 1974 Dr. Curtis H. Springe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY9H_pioneertown_Pioneertown-CA.html
Pioneertown was founded in 1946 by a group of Hollywood personalities led by cowboy actors Dick Curtis and Russell Hayden as a permanent 1880s town for filming western movies. On Sept 1, 1946 Roy Rogers broke ground for the first buildings. Assist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY9G_daggett-garage_Daggett-CA.html
The Daggett Garage began life in the 1880s at the borax town of Marion, located on the northeast shore of Calico Dry Lake, as a locomotive repair roundhouse for the narrow-gauge Borate and Daggett Railroad. Daggett blacksmith Seymour Alf used a tw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY9D_warrens-well_Yucca-Valley-CA.html
Warren's Well marks the beginning of the town of Yucca Valley. Mark "Chuck" Warren drove freight wagons through the vally and settled here about 1880. In 1881 he hand-dug the well and later built a windmill, water trough, barn and a small cabin. W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY99_john-dennis-searles-wagon-routes_Golden-Valley-CA.html
This monument commemorates two wagon routes used by the Searles brothers to haul borax from their plant on Borax Lake (now Searles Lake) to the railhead at Mojave. The southern route traveled west of the Trona Pinnacles to Searles' freight station…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY8M_nipton_Toutle-CA.html
The town of Nipton was born on February 9, 1905 with the coming of the first train on the newly constructed San Pedro, Los Angles and Salt Lake Railroad. Originally called Nippeno Camp after a nearby gold discovery, the name was changed to Nipton …
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