To my knowledge, all I know about this site is that it was once a mining camp and neighbor to Stedman(Located a few miles down the road.)There is also a plaque located on the hill to the north. Submitted by: Nick Walrath

“Ragtown” is another of those very colorful Old West phrases for a Red Light District.  Ragtown is about 1 to 2 miles north of the productive, now abandoned, Bagdad mining district in San Bernardino County and also the namesake of the “Bagdad Café”.  Unfortunately, the Bagdad district is mostly on the Twentynine Palm Marine Corps Base and, even though you can still drive into it for a short distance, it is NOT SAFE!  The gunnery range is close by with NO WARNING SIGNS.

The remains of Ragtown also include unpaved streets lined with small boulders, a foundation or two and several trash middens,  but since most of the town was a tent city (thus “rag town”), we have only our imagination to describe this prosperous service community.

Submitted by Craig Phillips