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Photographer: Photo Color by Merle Porter, Published by Royal Pictures, Colton Ca.
Caption: Vintage Postcard of the Peter Lebeck Headstone and The Lebeck Oak Tree
Additional Description: Description on Postcard:
This marker is in memory of Peter Lebeck who was killed here by a Grizzly Bear on Oct. 17, 1837. Fort Tejon was established here by Lt. Col. E.F. Beale on Aug. 10, 1854 and lasted for 10 years. There were two events that took place here, the first a strange procession of an Army camel train that wound onto the clearing of the fort. Another event was the arrival of the first stage coach of the Butterfield Overland Mail on its way to San Francisco. The fort has been rebuilt and the bones of Lebecque, young voyageur of the Hudson Bay Company, was reburied near the spot where he died. M.P.
Submitted: September 5, 2008, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p34352
File Size: 0.591 Megabytes

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