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Eden Creek Ranch

Eden Creek Ranch

Eden Creek Ranch was a small family ranch and the center of the community for the mines up in the hills above it. According to Helen Fallini, Giovanni Fallini employed Abe Arigoni to build a stone ranch house at Eden Creek around 1910. The Fallini family lived there and supplied

Fields Gollab Cabin

Fields Gollab Cabin

Millspaugh

Millspaugh

Millspaugh was a small family mining camp settled in the late 1890s. According to the writings of Elizabeth Mecham, the first mill burned in 1902 but was immediately rebuilt with metal siding. Most of the buildings were hauled off in 1914.

South Gold Mill

South Gold Mill

Emigrant Canyon Petroglyphs

Emigrant Canyon Petroglyphs

What is truly amazing about this small petroglyph site in Death Valley is that it is in plain view, and people pass by it every day. I didn’t notice it until it was pointed out to me; it is so well hidden in plain sight. It is just off

Gunmetal Mine

Gunmetal Mine

Sylvania Mill

Sylvania Mill

This mine was discovered in the early 1870s and was worked first by Mexicans. In 1909, the Clair family bought the claims and worked for a long time after.