Mountain Springs Station Site - Jacumba, CA
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bluesnote
N 32° 39.549 W 116° 05.978
11S E 584431 N 3613859
This is one of two state markers located here.
Waymark Code: WMJR4G
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/22/2013
Views: 4
The plaque "From 1862-70, Peter Larkin and Joe Stancliff used a stone house about a mile north of here as a store from which ox teams pulled wagons up a 30% grade. The San Diego and Fort Yuma Turnpike Co. used the site as a toll road station until 1876. The crumbling house was replaced in 1917 by another still visible to its east. But road changes, beginning in 1878 and culminating in today's highway, have left the older stone house ruins inaccessible.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 194
Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with Imperial Valley Pioneers and Squibob Chapter, E Clampus Vitus
April 27, 1991"
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