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- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
Calico, California
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PC-002-661A
Calico, California
circa 1961
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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
- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
Royal Pictures, Colton, California
Postcard
3.5 inches X 5.5 inches
Yes
PC-002-661B
- San Diego State University Library and Information Access, Special Collections and University Archives
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20.96 MB
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