Historical Markers in Furnace Creek, California

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Historical Markers in Furnace Creek, California

1 ► California, Inyo County, Death Valley National Park, Furnace Creek — 20 Mule Team Wagon Train — 1885 —

Near California Route 190, 1 mile north of Badwater Road, on the left when traveling north.

Used in hauling borax from Death Valley to Mojave, 165 miles - 10 days. The borax weighed 24 tons. The entire weight totaled 36½ tons. — — Map (db m159870) HM

2 ► California, Inyo County, Death Valley National Park, Furnace Creek — Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley —

Near California Route 190 near Greenland Boulevard, on the left when traveling north.

Furnace Creek is a spring fed stream flowing into Death Valley. Native Americans lived here centuries prior to its discovery by lost Forty Niners. In 1881, Aaron Winters found borax nearby, and sold his claims and water rights to William Tell . . . — — Map (db m159457) HM

3 ► California, Inyo County, Death Valley National Park, Furnace Creek — Old Dinah — 1894 —

Near California Route 190,, 1 mile north of Badwater Road, on the left when traveling north.

Steam tractor and ore wagons introduced at Old Borate to replace the twenty mule teams and replaced in turn by the Borate and Daggett Railroad. The tractor was later used and abandoned on the Beatty-Keane Wonder Mine Road in Death Valley. — — Map (db m159872) HM

4 ► California, Inyo County, Death Valley National Park, Furnace Creek — Stephen Tyng Mather — July 4, 1867 - Jan. 22, 1930 —

Near Airport Road just west of California Route 190.

He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done. — — Map (db m158620) HM

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