1920s Borax mining equipment -- Death Valley Junction CA
N 36° 18.083 W 116° 24.869
11S E 552570 N 4017536
Some rusting pieces of old Borax mining equipment on display in front of the Amargosa Hotel in Death Valley Junction
Waymark Code: WMQTVF
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/28/2016
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Several pieces of old Borax mining equipment are on display in a small courtyard in front of the Office for the Amargosa Hotel in Death Valley Junction.
All the buildings in this tiny town were built in the 1920s to serve as the HQ and support facilities for the Pacific Coast Borax Co. The Amargosa Hotel was a 23-room hotel built and operated here by the company to house visitors and those doing business at the mine. All these buildings are on the US National Register of Historic Places.
From the Amargosa Opera House website: (
visit link)
"During the years 1923-1925, the Pacific Coast Borax Company constructed a company town consisting of a U-shaped complex of Spanish Colonial style buildings of adobe to house the company offices, store, dormitory, a twenty three room hotel, dining room, lobby, and employees' headquarters. A recreation hall was built at the northeast end of the complex and was used as a community center for dances, church services, movies, funerals, and town meetings. At the time it was known as Corkhill Hall. The architect who designed the town was Alexander Hamilton McCulloch."
The equipment on display near the hotel office includes a grader used to remove overburden capping borax deposits, and part of a cart that hauled raw borax to be processed.