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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y6R_road-to-adventure_Stovepipe-Wells-CA.html
The first resort on this site, originally named "Bungalette City," was opened on November 1, 1926. Owned and operated by Herman William (Bob) and Helene Eichbaum, this resort was the first attempt to provide full scale tourist services in Dea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WHB_devils-golf-course-historical_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Interbedded salt and water-bearing gravels are more than 1,000 feet thick beneath the Devils Golf Course. Great horizontal forces exerted by crystallizing salt, push these columns upward wind and rain carve them into fantastic shapes.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RZW_keane-wonder-mine_CA.html
During the first two decades of this century the Keane Wonder Mine was the scene of major investment and development. The products of this labor were the riches - gold and silver. About 1903, Jack Keane, prospector, discovered gold in this area…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RQA_wagon-wheel-history_CA.html
Traces of civilization remain for a long time on the face of Death Valley. Here, on both sides of the paved highway, you can see tracks of wagons that rolled between the mining boom towns of Rhyolite, Nevada and Skidoo, California.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J42_borax_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
These panels deal with how borax was mined and refined at the Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley. Borax Borates - salt minerals - were deposited in ancient lake beds that uplifted and eroded into the yellow Furnace Creek badlands. Water…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CKY_stephen-tyng-mather_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CKX_stephen-tyng-mather_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLT0_white-gold_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Though steeped in legend, the frenzied searchfor gold and other materials in Death Valley produced few fortunes. Borax, the "WhiteGold of the Desert," ranks as the valley'smost profitable mineral.Harmony Borax works, in front of you, wasone of Dea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLFO_20-mule-team-wagon-train_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Used in hauling borax from Death Valley toMojave, 165 miles - 10 days. The borax weighed24 tons. The entire weight totaled 36½ tons.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLFK_old-dinah_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Steam tractor and ore wagons introduced at Old Borate to replace the twenty muleteams and replaced in turn by the Borateand Daggett Railroad. The tractor was laterused and abandoned on the Beatty-Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley.
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