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Felicity - Center of the World
All photographs taken by Kenneth A. Larson. All rights reserved. © 2009 - 2012.|
The City of Felicity was founded in May 11, 1986 and lies at the southeast corner of California in Imperial County. It was named for Felicia Lee, wife of Jacques-Andre, and believed to be the first town in America named for a Chinese woman. Jacques-Andre became the first mayor of Felicity in a close 2 to 0 election. Jacques-Andre convinced Imperial County, California, to legally recognize a spot on his property as the official Center of the World with the Institut Geographique National of France also recognizing it s the center. The town is slowly developing around a master plan that places a pyrapid over the center of the Earth, a church on a hill, and a large array of granite walls etched with the important elements of world history. Inside the pyramid is a time capsule and a plaque. The entrance is marked with a 25 foot high section number 12 of the original stairway of the Eiffel Tower. The free-standing stair serves no purpose. Twenty sections of the stairs of the tower were sold at auction on 1 December 1983. The Hill of Prayer was created from 150,000 tons of earth trucked in. The Church is modeled after a church atop Mont St. Michel in Brittany. The World Commemorative Center is a series of two-inch-thick granite walls, long, two-sided wedges, arrayed across the desert. Andre is having inscribed everything that he thinks is worth telling future generations and they are expected to last 4,000 years. A Sundial has a three-dimensional bronze of Michelangelo's Arm of God as painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Felicity os off Interstate 8 a few miles west of Yuma, Arizona. Address: 1 Center of the World Drive Felicity, CA Directions: Take the I-8 Sidewinder exit 164. North side, follow signs for Felicity. Hours: Daily, from December through March. (Call to verify) The restaurant is only open four hours a day. Although the site is always open, for insurance reasons, visitors are not allowed to wander the site without a guide. Phone: 760-572-0100 |
 The site around the Pyramid. |
 Looking past the stairs at sunrise. |
 
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| The Pyramid is built over the amrker at the Center of the World. |
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| World Commemorative Center with the Church beyond. | |
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| World Commemorative Center is hundreds of granite panels telling the story of the world. . | |
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 These stairs to nowhere were once part of the Eiffel Tower. |
 The Felicity Post Office was dedicated on December 5, 1987 to serve population of two. |
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