Caliente

Caliente is a California Historical Landmark in Kern County.

Caliente · location approximate

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Originally known as Allen's Camp, after Gabriel Allen, who in the 1870's had a cabin and stock pasture near here, and as Caliente when railroad construction reached this point in April 1875, the town became a railroad terminal for a period of about 16 months while a force of up to 3,000 men, for the most part Chinese, labored on the heavy railroad construction on the mountain.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

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Historical maps covering this location

1861 · Passes, Sierra Nevada, Walker's Pass-Coast Range. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Map Of California And Nevada. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1875 · Map of the States Of California And Nevada. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1883 · 73. Part Of Southern California. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Sheet No. 4, Southern Portion, Irrigation Map of the San Joaquin Valley, California. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Passes, Sierra Nevada, Walker's Pass-Coast Range, 1861, covering the location of Caliente, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Passes, Sierra Nevada, Walker's Pass-Coast Range, 1861, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

Caliente

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