#639:  Palm Spring

Location:

On Vallecito Creek Rd, 1.6 mi E of County Rd S2 (P.M. 43.1), Anza Borrego Desert State Park

Plaque:

State Plaque

Links:

None

Notes:

Use caution on the dirt roads getting to the site. They are sandy, and a non 4-wheel drive can get stuck, as we found out.

Plaque Text:

Palm Spring

Here Mexican pioneers coming to California between 1862 and 1866 rested among the palms, here, too, came mountain men, the Army of the West, the Mormon Battalion, a boundary commission, '49ers, a railway survey team, the Butterfield Overland Mail stages, and the California Legion. This was the site of the Butterfield stage station built in 1858 by Warren F. Hall.

©2009 David Schmitt