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Historic Sites Attractions In California Desert

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California is a U.S. state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.5 million residents, California is the most populous state in the United States and the third largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 8.8 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second-most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County; its largest county by area, San Bernardino County; and its fifth most d...
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Historic Sites Attractions In California Desert

  • 1. Sunnylands Rancho Mirage
    Sunnylands, the former Annenberg Estate, located in Rancho Mirage, California, is a 200-acre estate currently run by The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, a not-for-profit organization. The property was owned by Walter and Leonore Annenberg until 2009 and had been used as a winter retreat by the couple from 1966, when the house was completed. The property is rich with historical significance, according to the city of Rancho Mirage, which declared Sunnylands an historic site in 1990. Located at Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope Drives, the property has been the vacation site of numerous celebrities and public officials. Sunnylands is to some extent regarded as the Camp David of the West.
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  • 4. Village Green Heritage Center Palm Springs
    This is a list of gay villages, urban areas with generally recognized boundaries that unofficially form a social center for LGBT people. They tend to contain a number of gay lodgings, B&Bs, bars, clubs and pubs, restaurants, cafés and other similar businesses. Some may be gay getaways, such as Provincetown or Guerneville.
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  • 6. Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Museum Death Valley Junction
    The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was a former class II railroad that ran within the locale of eastern California and southwestern Nevada.It was built to mainly haul borax for Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company from mines located just east of Death Valley, but it also hauled lead, clay, feldspar, passengers and general goods across the desert to the connection with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at Ludlow, California, and to the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad at Crucero, California. The railroad was originally intended to run from Tonopah, Nevada, to the tidewater at San Diego, California, but never made it to either on its own rails. It was famous for being the last of the three railroads built to cross the Death Valley region, and outlasting them by over ...
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  • 7. Calico Early Man Site Yermo
    The Calico Early Man Site is an archaeological site in an ancient Pleistocene lake located near Barstow in San Bernardino County in the central Mojave Desert of southern California. This site is on and in late middle-Pleistocene fanglomerates known variously as the Calico Hills, the Yermo Hills, or the Yermo formation. Holocene evidence includes petroglyphs and trail segments that are probably related to outcrops of local high-quality siliceous rock . The Calico Early Man Site includes: Artifacts of the Lake Manix Lithic Industry found on and just below the surface at elevations greater than 543 m , the shoreline elevation of a 236 km2 freshwater Pleistocene lake which emptied approximately 18,000 years ago. Material recovered from nested Pleistocene alluvial deposits stratigraphically ben...
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  • 8. General Sherman Tree Sequoia And Kings Canyon National Park
    The General Grant tree is the largest giant sequoia in the General Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park in California and the second largest tree in the world.
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  • 9. Tehachapi Loop Tehachapi
    Tehachapi is a city in Kern County, California, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an elevation of 3,970 feet between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. Tehachapi is 35 miles east-southeast of Bakersfield, and 20 miles west of Mojave. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.0 square miles and a population of 14,414.
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  • 10. Manzanar National Historic Site Independence California
    Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten American concentration camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II from December 1942 to 1945. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is approximately 230 miles north of Los Angeles. Manzanar was identified by the United States National Park Service as the best-preserved of the former camp sites, and is now the Manzanar National Historic Site, which preserves and interprets the legacy of Japanese American incarceration in the United States.Long before the first incarcerees arrived in March 1942, Manzanar was home to Native Americans, who lived mostly in villages near several creeks in the area....
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