Caliente

Kern County · Caliente · location approximate

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1971 register text, presented as a historical document.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 ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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