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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMBQ_needles-el-garces-train-station_Needles-CA.html
Formerly one of the grandest Harvey House Hotel, Restaurant & Santa Fe Train Stations. The hotel and restaurant were open from 1908 to 1949. The train station closed in 1988.
Recognized by Hampton Hotels Save-A-Landmark program as a site worth …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM6S_amboy-and-roys-caf_Amboy-CA.html
Amboy, settled as early as 1858, became a water stop when the Southern Pacific Railroad laid its tracks through the Cadiz Valley in 1883-84. Following the course of the railroad and the National Old Trails Highway, Route 66 was opened in 1926. Amb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKB7_memorial-to-pauliena-lafuze_Skyforest-CA.html
"I never thought I would outlive the trees"A century old herself in 2005, and seeing many of her beloved trees bow to beetle and flame, Pauliena Lafuze had done just that. She has been a Lake Arrowhead Woman's Club member since the 1930's, and has…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJN6_von-schmidt-state-boundary-monument_Needles-CA.html
This marker commemorates the iron column erected in 1876 at the southernmost tip of the boundary survey line run by Allexey W. Von Schmidt, U. S. astronomer and surveyor. The line dividing Nevada and California was based on preliminary geodetic wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJN5_von-schmidt-state-boundary-monument_Needles-CA.html
This boundary monument, a cast iron column erected in 1873, marks the southern terminus of the California - Nevada State Boundary established by A. W. Von Schmidt's 1872 - 73 survey. Von Schmidt's line, the first officially recognized oblique stat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJME_army-camp-at-goffs_Henrico-CA.html
The U. S. Army maintained a camp at Goffs 1942-1944. Goffs was an important railhead, supply point, hospital, and for three months in 1942 Headquarters of the 7th Infantry Division. That unit went on to distinguish itself in combat in the Aleutian…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8G7_calicos-school-house_Barstow-CA.html
Calico's original school house was built in 1885, at this location above the town.
What you are seeing here is a replica, built in the early 1950's. Old photographs were used in order to match the architecture as closely as possible, however th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6SY_calico-lives-again_Barstow-CA.html
Under the auspices of Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, Calif. Buildings shall be rebuilt on their original sites.
Walter Knott is dedicating Calico Ghost Town to the memory of the heroic silver miners who lived and toiled here.
The preservati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6SV_town-of-calico_Barstow-CA.html
Centered about the "Town of Calico", The Calico Mining District, which had a peak population of 3,000, produced between $13 and $20 million in silver and $9 million in borate minerals between 1881 and 1907. On April 6, 1881, several claims were lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5VN_yorba-slaughter-adobe_Chino-CA.html
This example of early California architecture was built in 1850-53 by Raimundo Yorba. Purchased in 1868 by Fenton Mercer Slaughter, it was preserved as a memorial to him by his daughter, Julia Slaughter Fuqua.