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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/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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KRS_western-expansion_CA.html
In 1776, while Spain was establishing missions in California, Father Garces became in the first known Europe to travel along Indian trails here. Mojave Indians helped guide Garces west to the San Gabriel Mission. In 1826, famed trapper and explore…
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY6E_camp-rock-spring_Randsburg-CA.html
To the United States Soldiers of Camp Rock Spring —- who guarded the U.S. Mail No glory there, nor much chance for military fame, but true patriots and heroes were they, to submit to such privations—yet these are the nurseries of th…
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