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  • Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Eastern Sierra

    Including Death Valley, Alpine, Inyo & Mono Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
    • The Federal Writers’ Project named an area three miles south-southeast of Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley the Devil’s Cornfield because the arrowweed growing there resembled shocks of corn tied about the middle.• The Devil’s Golf Course got its name because it was thought that only a fiend could play golf on the rough surface of crystallized salt at the place.• Lost Cannon Creek owes its name to ... Read more

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  • Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Desert Counties

    Includes Imperial, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
         • The name Rancho Cucamonga, derived from an Indian word, suffered a number of bizarre spellings by early Americans including, Coco Mongo Ranch, Cocomouga’s Ranch, Qui-qual-mun-go Ranch, Kikal Mungo ranch and Rancho Cocoa-Mungo.      • A place called Indian Wells, about eight miles south and a little west of Seeley was a station on the Butterfield Overland stage route. It was destroyed by the ... Read more

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  • Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Gold Country

    Including Yosemite National Park, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Sierra & Nevada Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
         • Above-ground graves resembling small, outdoor ovens furnished the name for the Mariposa County village of Hornitos. Hornitos is a Spanish word that means “little ovens.”      • In 1885, Alexander Kirkwood founded a hotel called Rattlesnake House in Tuolumne County. After his death, Mrs. Kirkwood remarried a fellow named William Priest. The hotel was generally called Priest’s Station after ... Read more

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  • Durham’s Place Names of California’s North Coast

    Includes Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino & Trinity Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place Names of California
    • Wounded Knee Mountain in Del Norte County got its name from an incident suffered by an Unites States Geological Survey employee who was working in the neighborhood in 1915. The mountain sits just one and a half miles west of Broken Rib Mountain, another sore spot in California’s place-name history.• Hell to Find Lake isn’t all that hard to find; it is five and a half miles southwest of the ... Read more

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  • Durham’s Place-Names of Central California

    Includes Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings & Kern Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names
    • Steven Barton founded the town of Isabella near the Kern River and named it for Queen Isabella of Spain in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition celebrating the quadricentennial of the discovery of America. Sixty years later, a dam was built on the river and the original community was moved to a site one and a half miles south below the dam. The water of Isabella Lake now covers the ... Read more

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  • Durham’s Place-Names of Greater Los Angeles

    Includes Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
    • The pueblo that became the city was established in 1781 as “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.” A hill located less than 1,000 feet from Los Angeles city hall was used as a base during the first American occupation of Los Angeles in 1846. Lieutenant Davidson built Fort Moore there in 1847 and named it to honor Captain Benjamin D. Moore, who was killed in ... Read more

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  • Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Central Coast

    Includes Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Benito, Monterey & Santa Cruz Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
         • Sutil Island, a 1,250 foot-long island, 1,900 feet off the southwest end of Santa Barbara Island was named after one of merchant-explorer Sebastian Vizcaino’s ships.      • Gaspar de Portola founded Presidio of San Carlos Borromeo de Monterey, at present day Monterey in 1770. In 1822, the Mexicans built a fort about one mile northwest of the original presidio. After American occupation of ... Read more

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