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State Parks, Historic Sites, and Museums need your help.Places Earth recently encountered closed state parks in Arizona and California is threatening to close all state parks. The story is similar throughout the country. Places Earth urges everyone to support these vital and important public resources any way you can. Please find a worthy local or distant historic site or museum that is in financial danger and donate your treasure, time, and talent. Write to your governor and other elected officials telling them to find a way to keep these parks open. It will be your loss. Public Service Announcement |
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Historic Mono County
All photographs taken by Kenneth A. Larson. All rights reserved. © 2009 - 2010.| Mono County, on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is filled with historic sites. Bodie State Historic Park is one of the best examples a western mining town maintained in a state of arrested decay. The town of Lee Vining on the west shore of Mono Lake contains several historic sites within its borders including the School House Museum. Mono Lake is historic in itself and one of the oldest lakes in North America while Mono Craters are the youngest mountains in North America. |
 West Portal, a little east of the marker, was the largest of four "camps" or company towns built in 1934 by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for employees and their families involved with the Mono Basin Project. The town had, at its height, 26 buildings and over 200 residents and had all the modern conveniences. The town was abandoned within a few years of the project completion in 1941. |
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| Grave of the Unknown Prospector at the corner of Highways 395 and 120. | |
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This page last updated: Sunday, 06-Dec-2009 09:19:13 CST
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