PC-002-661A

Calico, California

 

circa 1961

Porter, Merle

 

The ghost town of Calico is in the Calico hills nine miles east of Barstow. A lengthy paragraph on the back by the photographer Merle Porter gives a history of the discovery of silver there in 1881 and the town's development as a silver-mining then borax-mining community. Not only does Knott's Berry Farm have a Calico Ghost Town on its property near Los Angeles, but Walter Knott, founder of the farm, had a homestead nearby and purchased the town (1951), making its restoration his project. He donated it to San Bernardino County in 1966, when it became a county regional park. Numbers on the divided back, 8l-498 and S19011-1, probably belong to the publisher and photographer.

Calico ghost town; Calico mountain range; Ghost towns

 

California - Calico

Royal Pictures, Colton, California

 

MS-0008

 

Royal Pictures, Colton, California

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

Yes

PC-002-661B

 

 

Image

TIFF

20.96 MB