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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYQ0_project-carryall_Ludlow-CA.html
...and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Micah 4:3With the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War, Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYPZ_nevada-southern-railway_Ludlow-CA.html
In January of 1893 construction of Isaac C. Blake's Nevada Southern Railway commenced northward from Goffs toward Manvel (later known as Barnwell) for the purpose of hauling ore from the mining districts of southeastern California and southern Nev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYPY_tonopah-and-tidewater-railroad-shops_Ludlow-CA.html
Seeking a more efficient way to get borax from his mines on the east side of Death Valley to processing facilities near Los Angeles, and hoping to tap the booms at Rhyolite, Tonopah, and Goldfield, Nevada, Francis Marion Smith built the Tonopah an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYPV_old-woman-springs-ranch_Lucerne-Valley-CA.html
This area of Lucern Valley became known as Old Woman Springs when a government survey party discovered a number of Indian women camping here in 1856. The original water source, now called Cottonwood Springs, is directly in front of you. In 1907 ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLO_fort-pah-ute_Charleston-CA.html
As many as eighteen enlisted men of Company "D," 9th U.S. Infantry once served duty here within the now crumbling walls of "Fort Pah-Ute." Although never established as an official fort, "Pah-Ute Creek," as it was commonly called, did house a smal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLC_donald-s-wieman_Crestline-CA.html
In 1932, during the Great Depression, California launched a large public works project to aid recovery. A major component was the construction of masonry walls, parapets and fountains along the historic "Rim of the World" highway. This work, widel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLB_mormon-lumber-road_San-Bernardino-CA.html
In the spring of 1852, over one hundred Mormon men donated a full thousand man-days of arduous labor, to construct a road up Waterman Canyon, past this spot, and into the prime timber, where some of their enterprising bethren established six sawmi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLA_mormon-pioneer-trail_Riverside-CA.html
On June 1851, the first major group of 520 Mormon settlers entered Southern California at Baldy Mesa Ridge in the West Cajon Pass. This location is northwest of Highway 138, about four miles from the Palmdale Freeway offramp. The Wagon Route ran p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGE_francis-marion-borax-smith_Baker-CA.html
Francis Marion "Borax" Smith built the railroad to move borax out of the hills and Death Valley in 1907 to replace the twenty mule teams that crossed this way to Ludlow.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYFN_kimberly-crest_Redlands-CA.html
Mary Kimberly Shirk, an advocate for women's education and acting president of Scripps College during World War II, made a gift of her home, Kimberly Crest, to the people of Redlands. The house, an excellent example of Chateauesque architecture de…
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