From Scrubland to Ranchland

From Scrubland to Ranchland (HM1OEE)

Location: Lee Vining, CA 93541 Mono County
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N 38° 2.871', W 119° 5.756'

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It took hard work, but homesteaders and settlers who came from Canada, Europe, Asia and other parts of the United States scraped a living from this tough land. Many had come to the Eastern Sierra in the 1870s and 1880s seeking riches from mining towns such as Bodie - and realized that could make a better living provisioning the miners.
Ranch owners were entrepreneurs: Louis W. De Chambeau, the owner of this ranch, raised pigs and herded sheep, which were then slaughtered for meat that was sold or bartered. De Chambeau grew hay to feed cattle and had a hay baler that he leased to other families. Growing up in Canada, he was a fine woodworker and in the winter manufactured skis that he sold to the local community.
As remote as this ranch feels, it and other local ranches played an important role in the mining boom of the late nineteenth century in the Eastern Sierra. Without the produce and meat provided by the De Chambeau ranch and others, mining could not have taken place.
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HM NumberHM1OEE
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Placed ByDepartment of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service
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Date Added Sunday, October 4th, 2015 at 1:03pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)11S E 316092 N 4213197
Decimal Degrees38.04785000, -119.09593333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 2.871', W 119° 5.756'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 2' 52.26" N, 119° 5' 45.36" W
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Area Code(s)760
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling East
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Unnamed Road, Lee Vining CA 93541, US
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