Desert Tower with long history

#RockSolidHistory from Mountain Springs Station, CA!

From 1862-1870, Peter Larkin and Joe Stancliff built a stone house about a mile north of this site and used it as a store for ox teams.

Later, the San Diego and Fort Yuma Turnpike Co. used the site as a toll road station until 1876.

Today there is the Desert View Tower (built in 1922 by Bert Vaughn) with a tourist store, along with AirBnB houses, and Boulder Park (an artist’s creation, Merle Ratcliff, during the Great Depression) on the grounds. From the tower, you can see Mexico!
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It is a wild and funky place you just cannot miss if you are in the area.
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