#985:  Desert Training Center, California-Arizona Maneuver Area - Camp Young

Location:

General Patton Memorial Museum, Chiriaco Summit, from Interstate 10 exit N at Chiriaco Summit, 28 mi E of Indio

Plaque:

State Plaque

Notes:

None

From the Guidebook:

On July 17, 1877, Thomas Blythe, a San Francisco financier, filed the first legal claim for Colorado River water rights. Oliver Callaway planned a diversion dam and canal which opened in 1877 to irrigate the Palo Verde Valley. This made possible the settlement and development of the valley.

©2009 David Schmitt