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The Errea House, originally built in the early 1870s in Tehichipa, was moved to Tehachapi in 1900 and is now a museum; it is also listed on the NRHP.. The Kawaiisu people (also Nuwu ("people" in Kawaiisu), or Nuooah) are the Native American tribe whose homeland was the Tehachapi Valley, and seasonally the southern Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert, for thousands of years.
Town gas is a more general term referring to manufactured gaseous fuels produced for sale to consumers and municipalities. [ 1 ] The original coal gas was produced by the coal gasification reaction, [ 2 ] and the burnable component consisted of a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in roughly equal quantities by volume.
Bonnie Springs Ranch was an attraction near Blue Diamond, Nevada that included an 1880s Western town replica and a zoo. It is located on 63.86 acres (25.84 ha) in the Mojave Desert , below the Spring Mountains in the Red Rock Canyon area, 20 miles west of Las Vegas .
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The first well at Burning Springs drilled to obtain oil rather than salt was begun in 1859, and soon the Rathbone family (John V. and his son John C. ("Cass") Rathbone), sold 70 one-acre plots to others who wished to drill. In 1861, 10,000 people moved to the area, and the boom town grew to more than a mile long.
Hawthorne and Old Town Spring is a historic home and spring located at Winchester, Virginia, United States. Hawthorne was built about 1811, and is a two-story, five-bay, Late Georgian style stone dwelling with Federal style detailing. It has a hipped roof and rear service wing added about 1840. The Old Town Spring is a brick spring house built ...
Coal gas is no longer made in the UK but many gasworks sites are still used for storage and metering of natural gas and some of the old gasometers are still in use. Fakenham gasworks dating from 1846 is the only complete, non-operational gasworks remaining in England. Other examples exist at Biggar in Scotland and Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland.
The settlement "quickly became a wild and lawless place as drifters, gamblers, and outlaws made their way to town". [5] Four men employed by the Hashknife Ranch robbed the train at Canyon Diablo in 1889, then fled on horseback with $100,000 in currency, 2,500 new silver dollars, and $40,000 in gold coins, as well as silver watches, jewelry, and ...