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Boron is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Boron is 15 miles southwest of Red Rock Mountain at an elevation of 2,467 feet . The population was 2,253 at the 2010 census, up from 2,025 at the 2000 census. Boron is named after the element boron and is the site of the world's largest source of the boron compound boric acid. Boron is a hinterland community on the western edge of the Mojave Desert. Within a half day's drive one can view the highest and lowest points in the contiguous 48 states of the United States , the world's oldest tree, the bristlecone pine, and the cities of both Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Boron is hom...
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  • 3. Borax Visitor Center Boron
    The Rio Tinto Boron Mine in Boron, California is California's largest open-pit mine and the largest borax mine in the world, producing nearly half the world's borates. Ore reserves are sufficient for production through at least 2050. It is operated by the Borax division of the Rio Tinto Group. The borax deposit here was discovered in 1913, by John K. Sukow, who when drilling for water found a deposit of what he believed to be gypsum, but further testing revealed that it was the colemanite form of borax. Francis Marion Borax Smith quickly bought the claim for his Pacific Coast Borax Company. Mining at the site by shafts began in the 1920s. Pacific Coast Borax later became U.S. Borax, which subsequently opened the current open pit mine in 1957. U.S. Borax was later acquired by Rio Tinto Grou...
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  • 4. Calico Ghost Town Yermo
    Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and today has been converted into a county park named Calico Ghost Town. Located off Interstate 15, it lies 3 miles from Barstow and 3 miles from Yermo. Giant letters spelling CALICO can be seen on the Calico Peaks behind the ghost town from the freeway. Walter Knott purchased Calico in the 1950s, architecturally restoring all but the five remaining original buildings to look as they did in the 1880s. Calico received California Historical Landmark #782, and in 2005 was proclaimed by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's Silver Rush Ghost Town.
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  • 5. Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve Lancaster California
    Antelope Valley is located in northern Los Angeles County, California, and the southeast portion of Kern County, California, and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert. It is situated between the Tehachapi and the San Gabriel Mountains. The valley was named for the pronghorns that roamed there until they were all but eliminated in the 1880s by bad weather and subsequent fur hunting. The principal cities in the Antelope Valley are Palmdale and Lancaster.
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  • 7. Castle Rock Trail 1W03 Big Bear Lake
    Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton, previously known as Castle Garden, is a circular sandstone fort now located in Battery Park, in Manhattan, New York City. It is perhaps best remembered as America's first immigration station , where more than 8 million people arrived in the United States from 1855 to 1890. Over its active life, it has also functioned as a beer garden, exhibition hall, theater, and public aquarium, and currently is a national monument.
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