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Tourist Spot Attractions In Yermo

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Yermo is a town in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California. Its name is derived from one of the Spanish words for wilderness. It is 13 miles east of Barstow on Interstate 15, just south of the Calico Mountains. Its population was an estimated 1,750 in 2009. Founded in 1902 and originally named Otis, Yermo is situated at a division point of the Union Pacific Railroad line. A post office was established three years later with William J. Flavin serving as Yermo's first postmaster. The town later developed around serving motorists traveling the Arrowhead Trail , which ran through the community. Today, Yermo is governed by an elected five-mem...
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  • 1. 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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  • 2. 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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