Taken from Wikipedia, "Fort Tejon in California is a former United States Army outpost which was intermittently active from June 24, 1854, until September 11, 1864. It is located in the Grapevine Canyon (La Cañada de las Uvas) between the San Emigdio Mountains and Tehachapi Mountains. It is in the area of Tejon Pass along Interstate 5 in Kern County, California, the main route through the mountain ranges separating the Central Valley from the Los Angeles Basin and Southern California. The fort's location protected the San Joaquin Valley from the south and west."
From the guidebook on page 451, "California: a guide to the Golden State": Right on this road to FORT TEJON (adm. roé), 0.2 m., once a flourishing Army outpost. On August 10, 1854, Lt. Col. E. F. Beale established this fort in the wilderness ad a protectors for travelers over the mountain trail and as an administrative post for regulating affairs of the surrounding Indians. Ten years after its establishment, on September 11, 1864, it officially expired. In 1815 a strange procession wound into the clearing of Fort Tejon-a camel train imported from the Near East in an attempt to provide the Army with transportation into the deserts of the South and West-and a year later part of the train returned. The camels were of little use, since on long marches, they foundered because their tender feet were not adapted to the rocky soil. In 1864 all that remained in California were actioned off at Benicia. Some entered the circus, some packed freight, and some, turned loosed, frightened the wits out of desert prospectors for many years. Another event of 1858 was the arrival of the first stagecoach on the Butterfield Overland Mail on its way to San Francisco.
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