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readtheplaque.com
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| | | | | NIPTON THE TOWN OF NIPTON WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 9, 1905 WITH THE COMING OF THE FIRST TRAIN ON THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES AND SALT LAKE RAILROAD. ORIGINALLY CALLED NIPPENO CAMP AFTER A NEARBY GOLD DISCOVERY, THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO NIPTON WHEN THE SP, LA & SL MERGED WITH THE UNION PACIFIC CIRCA 1910. FOR MANY YEARS, THE DEPOT WAS A CATTLE-LOADING STATION FOR SEVERAL LOCAL RANCHES INCLUDING YATES RANCH, THE WALKING BOX, AND ROCK SPRINGS LAND AND CATTLE CO. THE TOWN AND DEPOT ALSO SUPPLIED NUMEROUS MINES IN THE AREA, BECOMING A SOCIAL CENTER FOR THE SPARSE POPULATION OF THE REGION. COMMUNITY FACILITIES INCLUDED A SCHOOL, POST OFFICE, VOTER PRECINCT, AND SEVERAL SMALL BUSINESSES. BEGUN AS A 20TH CENTURY RAILROAD DEPOT, NIPTON IS RE-FORMING INTO A 21ST CENTURY GATEWAY TO THE MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE. Plaque placed October 10, 1999 by Billy Holcomb Chapter and Queho Posse of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus.. | |
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davemullenjnr.co.uk
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| | | | | Travel photography and video from a three-week trip up the pacific west coast, starting in Los Angeles and finishing in Vancouver | |
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bonjourdarlene.com
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| | | | | Did you know? Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the American rock band, The Doors, lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1950s | |
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www.navalnews.com
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| | | On August 7, Japan deployed its first three F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters at the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Nyutabaru Air Base in Miyazaki prefecture on Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, according to the JASDF. This is part of Japan's effort to beef up its presence near disputed islands amid assertive moves by China. Four ... | ||
