LANFAIR
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NAME: Lanfair COUNTY: San Bernadino ROADS: 2WD GRID #(see map): 3 CLIMATE: Mild winter and hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring, winter, fall. |
COMMENTS:
Hard to find. Levi, a resident of the valley since 1948, lives just north of Lanfair. He was a county sheriff for many years, and knows this area very well. He was kind enough to take us to a spring with a lot of petroglyphs on the rocks around it. Rock Springs Camp and Government Wells are close by. REMAINS: A few crumbling foundations. |
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Lanfair was once a very large town and is now reduced to rubble. Lanfair is just northeast of Essex. There was much ranching and sheepherding in the area. The first cattle ranching business in the eastern Mojave area began in the late 1880's. In 1884 the Rock Spring Land and Cattle Co. was incorporated, extending their operations throught the eastern Mojave, including a large portion of southern Nevada. Homesteading became popular around 1910, especially with people from the Los Angeles area. An orphange for black children was established, but soon failed. A post office, called Dunbar was established in 1912 and one month later the Lanfair post office was granted, 200 hundred yards from the Dunbar P.O. By 1914 the post office department realized that only one P.O. was needed, so the Lanfair P.O. was the official post office, which lasted to 1927. Submitted by: Brian Furthmyer |
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