Burnt Wagons, California
Burnt Wagons is a former settlement in Inyo County, California.[2] It was located in Death Valley 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Death Valley Junction.[2] The name recalls the emigrants of 1849 who abandoned and burnt their wagons at the site.[2] The site is now registered as California Historical Landmark #441.[1] The monument's plaque[3][4] reads:
BURNED WAGONS POINT Near this monument, the Jayhawker group of Death Valley Forty-Niners, gold seekers from Middle West, who entered Death Valley in 1849 seeking short route to the mines of central California, burned their wagons, dried the meat of some oxen and, with surviving animals, struggled westward on foot.
STATE REGISTERED LANDMARK NO.441
Marker placed by California Centennials Commission.
Base furnished by Death Valley '49ers, Inc.
Dedicated December 3rd, 1949
Burnt Wagons | |
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Former settlement | |
 The Burnt Wagons Monument | |
| Coordinates: 36°36′24″N 117°08′46″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Inyo County |
| Official name | Burned Wagons Point[1] |
| Reference no. | 441 |
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- "Burned Wagons Point". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
- Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1159. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- http://photos.historical-markers.org/California/Inyo-County/CA441-Burned-Wagons-Point
- http://www.deathvalley49ers.org/monuments/
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