Austin Hall, the much loved focal point of the Trona community, once stood on this site. Built in 1912 the unique structure, with its one-foot thick concrete walls, boasted 45 arches on three sides, the building provided a cooling shelter from the . . . — — Map (db m51859) HM
On Trona Wildrose Road at Ballarat Road, on the right when traveling north on Trona Wildrose Road.
3˝ miles east of this point lies Ballarat. Established in 1897 as a mining camp and supply center for the gold and silver mines located on the western slope of the Panamint Mountains. It was named after a well-known gold producing area in . . . — — Map (db m159351) HM
On Trona Wildrose Road at Ballarat Road, on the right when traveling north on Trona Wildrose Road.
Now a ghost town, Ballarat served nearby mining camps from 1897 to 1917. They produced nearly a million in gold. The jail & a few adobe ruins remain. Seldom Seen Slim, it's last resident, was buried in Boothill in 1968. It had a school but no . . . — — Map (db m159350) HM
On Trona Road (California Route 178) at Pinnacle Road, on the right when traveling east on Trona Road.
In 1917 a deposit of Epsom salts was discovered near the old Wingate Wash Borax Road at the southern end of Death Valley. In 1919 the claims were acquired by Los Angeles florist Thomas Wright. Although close to an existing road, Wright devised other . . . — — Map (db m78525) HM
On Pinnacle Road just south of Trona Road (Highway 178), on the right when traveling south.
Do you recognize the Trona Pinnacles
from more than a dozen hit movies?
Over thirty film projects a year
are shot among the tufa
pinnacles, including backdrops for
car commercials and sci-fi movies such
as Star Trek V, The Gate II, . . . — — Map (db m212574) HM
On Slate Range Road, on the left when traveling north.
The escape trail where Manley & Rodgers led the Bennett & Arcane families to safety from Death Valley in Feb 1850.
←Brier's Silent Sepulchre Fish's Gravesite, 1 mile. — — Map (db m174570) HM
On Trona Road (California Route 178) at Pinnacle Road, on the right when traveling east on Trona Road.
This monument commemorates two wagon routes used by the Searles brothers to haul borax from their plant on Borax Lake (now Searles Lake) to the railhead at Mojave. The southern route traveled west of the Trona Pinnacles to Searles' freight station . . . — — Map (db m78554) HM
On Main Street at Searles Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.
This building was designated California Point of Historical Interest No. SBR-122 by the State Historical Resources Commission
on November 17, 1995. — — Map (db m195534) HM
On Trona Wildrose Road at Ballarat Road, on the right when traveling north on Trona Wildrose Road.
Rich sliver ore was discovered in December 1872 at the head of Surprise Canyon 12 miles northeast of here. The United States Senators for Nevada, John P. Jones and William Morris Stewart, invested in and promoted the camp which drew a peak . . . — — Map (db m159349) HM
Near Route P1558 2 miles west of Old Nadeau Trail.
The town of Reilly was established on a mining claim purchased
by Edward Reilly of New York in September 1882. By October,
Reilly had ordered a 10 stamp mill and began to organize his
mining district. This rapidly growing "company town" . . . — — Map (db m260671) HM
On Trona Road at Center Street, on the right when traveling north on Trona Road.
Borax was discovered on the nearby surface of Searles Lake by John Searles in 1862. With his bother, Dennis he formed the San Bernardino Borax Mining Company in 1873 and operated it until 1897. These chemicals in Searles Lake which include borax, . . . — — Map (db m50241) HM
On Trona Road north of Verbena Street, on the left when traveling north.
Constructed during the years of
1941 and 1942.
Dedicated to
the students and citizens of Searles
Valley on March 31, 1942, by
R.W. Mumford, president of trustees.
"The fate of empires depends
on the education of youth." . . . — — Map (db m261971) HM
On Trona Wildrose Road just north of Valley Wells Road, on the right when traveling north.
In this area, several groups of midwestern emigrants, who had escaped from hazards and privations in Death Valley in 1849, sought to secure water from Searles Lake. When they discovered its salty nature, they turned northward and westward in . . . — — Map (db m93441) HM
Rising from the bottom of what was once an ancient lakebed, the Trona Pinnacles represent one of the most unique geologic landscapes in the California Desert. Over 500 of these tufa or calcium carbonate spires are spread out over a 14 square mile . . . — — Map (db m50221) HM
