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French Camp is the location of the U.S. Army Sharpe Depot and the GSA Western Distribution Center, and is the oldest settlement in San Joaquin County. [4] San Joaquin General Hospital is located in French Camp. It is also the location of the county jail, the county juvenile hall and the county children's shelter, which combine to form a sizable ...
The company of Nevada Infantry at Fort Independence were relieved by Company E, 2nd Cavalry California Volunteers, from Camp Babbitt under Captain Herman Noble. - December 1865 [ 23 ] Company E, 2nd California Cavalry, was relieved by two companies of the 9th Infantry Regiment arrived at Camp Independence in mid May 1866.
The Inyo National Forest was named after Inyo County, California, in which much of the forest resides. The name "Inyo" comes from a Native American word meaning "dwelling place of the great spirit". [8] The forest spans parts of Inyo, Mono, Tulare, Fresno and Madera counties in California, and Esmeralda and Mineral counties in Nevada.
Manzanar was first inhabited by Native Americans nearly 10,000 years ago. Approximately 1,500 years ago, the area was settled by the Owens Valley Paiute, [4] [5] who ranged across the Owens Valley from Long Valley on the north to Owens Lake on the south, and from the crest of the Sierra Nevada on the west to the Inyo Mountains on the east. [6]
Darwin is an unincorporated mining community and Census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States. It is located 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Keeler . [ 3 ] The population was 43 at the 2010 census, down from 54 at the 2000 census.
Inyo County (/ ˈ ɪ n j oʊ / ⓘ) is a county in the eastern central part of the U.S. state of California, located between the Sierra Nevada and the state of Nevada. In the 2020 census , the population was 19,016. [ 10 ]
Camp Independence site, with California Historical Landmark plaque. Fort Independence, originally named Camp Independence, was a fort located in the Owens Valley, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of present-day Independence, Inyo County, eastern California. The U.S. Army post was active from 1862 to 1877.
French Camp. The terminus of the Oregon-California trail used by French-Canadian trappers employed by the Hudson's Bay Company from about 1832 to 1845. Michel Laframboise, among others, met fur hunters here annually, where they camped with their families. [15] Weber Point Home. Site of a two-story adobe-and-redwood house built in 1850 by ...