3 entries match your criteria.
Related Historical Markers
Butterfield Overland Mail route.
By Craig Baker, July 11, 2018
Historical Site Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On South Spring Street at West Second Street, on the right when traveling south on South Spring Street. |
| |
This block is the site of:
First brick school house in Los Angeles known as School No. 1, built 1854-1855;
Butterfield Overland Mail Company office and corral, 1858-1861;
Office of U.S. Quartermaster, 1861;
Corral for camels from Fort . . . — — Map (db m164547) HM |
| On Manly Road, 0.2 miles north of Truman Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Willow Springs was a stage station on the Los Angeles-Havilah Stage Lines, 1864-1874. From here light traffic went through Oak Creek Pass via Tehachapi to Havilah and Kernville; heavy traffic went northwest to the Inyo mines, or via Jawbone Canyon . . . — — Map (db m156685) HM |
| On Caliente-Bodfish Road (County Route 483), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Gold deposits at Havilah were discovered in 1864. Havilah was the county seat between 1866, when Kern County was organized, and 1872, when the government was moved to Bakersfield. Havilah was an active mining center for more than 20 years, and . . . — — Map (db m51821) HM |
Apr. 29, 2024