Freeman Junction, California
- Freeman Junction, California
Freeman Junction, a US ghost town, was first homesteaded in the 1920s by Clare C. Miley, who was born in 1900. By the 1930s a restaurant, gas station and mining activities dominated the site.By June 1976 the town had died and the remains of the town have been removed by passersby.
In 1834 explorer Joseph R. Walker passed this junction of Indian trails after discovering nearby Walker Pass. Death Valley 49er parties here diverged west and south after their escape from Death Valley en route to the California gold fields. Later this became a junction point where the bandit Tiburcio Vasquez preyed on stages and freighters traveling between the Kern River mines and Los Angeles and the mines of Bodie and the Panamints.
California Historical Landmark #766
ee also
* List of California Historical Landmarks
* List of ghost towns
External links
* [http://www.caghosttowns.com/towns/kern/freemanjunction.htm California Ghost Towns]
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