San Bernardino is the county seat for San Bernardino County
Baker is in San Bernardino County
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On Zzyzx Road, 5 miles south of Interstate 15, on the left when traveling south.
The dry lake bed before you was once part of ancient Lake Mojave. During the last ice age, a cooler and wetter climate produced the Mojave River. It flowed inland about 150 miles from the San Bernardino Mountains, until its waters became trapped . . . — — Map (db m83467) HM
On Zzyzx Road, 5 miles south of Interstate 15, on the left when traveling south.
The waters here at Soda Springs have sustained people of many cultures for thousands of years. Nomadic Chemehuevi people and the agrarian Mohave Indians visited these springs during hunting, gathering, and trading trips through the area. Their . . . — — Map (db m83465) HM
On Rasor Road at Crucero Road / Yvonne Boulevard, on the right when traveling east on Rasor Road.
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. — — Map (db m123898) HM
On Death Valley Road (California Route 127 at milepost 29.8) at Saratoga Springs Road, on the left when traveling north on Death Valley Road.
Some 100 wagons found themselves in Salt Lake City too late to cross the Sierra Nevada. They banded together under the name of Sand Walking Co. and started for the gold fields in California over the old Spanish Trail. After being in Death Valley . . . — — Map (db m159400) HM
On Baker Boulevard (Business Interstate 15) east of Caltrans Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.
Marl Springs
Marl Springs was named in 1854 by Army Surveyor Lt. Amiel Whipple for the clay-like soil around the two waterholes. With the establishment of Fort Mojave in 1859, the Mojave (or Old Government) Road came into existence. Marl . . . — — Map (db m159025) HM
On Death Valley Road, 1 mile south of Saratoga Springs Road.
Though they comprise less than 9 percent of the 270 million acres of public lands administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, riparian and wetland areas, such as Salt Creek, are considered the most productive resources found on public lands. . . . — — Map (db m72926) HM
Near California Route 127, 29 miles north of Baker, on the right when traveling north.
This area was the focus of both prehistoric...American activities and historic...mining. The rich environment provides...for numerous species.
Please...protect these natural and c... This ACEC is open for hiking and non...d vehicle use. . . . — — Map (db m72928) HM
In 1860 the U.S. Army established an outpost at Soda Springs to protect government supplies from Indians. Later, miners processed the adjacent lake minerals. In 1906 the Tonopah & Tidewater railroad arrived. From 1944 to 1974 Dr. Curtis H. Springer . . . — — Map (db m78587) HM
On Zzyzx Road, 5 miles south of Interstate 15, on the left when traveling south.
[Panel #1]
1776 - 1830: Early Explorers
Francisco Garces
1776 - As the Revolutionary War broke out, California was still a province of Spain, and the Spanish government decided to help feed a hungry Mexico by farming the . . . — — Map (db m83575) HM
On Baker Boulevard, 0.1 miles east of Death Valley Road (California Route 127), on the right when traveling east.
Dedicated on this
Saturday, October 11, 2014,
to Willis and Barbara Herron,
original owners / founders of the
World’s Tallest Thermometer.
Facts:
Built in 1991, 134 feet tall,
representative of the world's hottest . . . — — Map (db m159379) HM
On Zzyzx Road, 5 miles south of Interstate 15, on the right when traveling south.
The Last Word and the Last Chance
In 1944, radio evangelist Curtis Howe Springer
filed a mining claim on public lands here at
Soda Springs and established Zzyzx Mineral
Springs resort. Over the next 30 years,
Springer transformed . . . — — Map (db m221075) HM
