David K
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1908 Postal Route Map: Mulegé to Calmallí
Most interesting is that La Prosperidad is included and maybe explains the old roadbed we drove on between there and San Pablo Canyon entrance?
Prosperidad 2017:
Prosperidad 2019:
Was this the post office? LOL
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Pretty nice place for someone to abandon.
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Interesting that the area around Mulegé was called Bahia de Los Angeles.
It’s unclear to me if there is a functioning postal service today.
[Edited on 2-20-2021 by BigBearRider]
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I think the Bahía de los Angeles is an error, big time.
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Quote: Originally posted by BigBearRider  | Interesting that the area around Mulegé was called Bahia de Los Angeles.
It’s unclear to me if there is a functioning postal service today.
[Edited on 2-20-2021 by BigBearRider] |
heck, they barely have postal service today! several years back, on the hwy north of mulege a couple miles up the grade i came across a postal truck,
and worker
dumping what looked like mail down the arroyo. to be fair...could have been other paper trash.
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Maybe BOLA and Magdalena were served by the mail service out of the port of Santa Rosalia, and that is why they are on the map?
I have noticed that El Arco does not start showing up on maps until about the 1920's. I am starting to think that El Arco did not grow into a
substantial town until copper mining started around that time. Copper mining is labor intensive, and would explain why 2-3 thousand persons lived at
El Arco, as has been reported.
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I had only read that El Arco was a gold mine town until the late 1960s or early 70s when new copper discoveries were going to give it a rebirth??
The 1962-1967 edition of the Lower California Guidebook:
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I think the mining in the 1920's-1940's at El Arco was mainly copper mining, though gold was found in the ore.
In 1960's an extensive new "porphery" sp? copper deposit was discovered at El Arco.
Great pictures of the old brick building at La Prosperidad !
[Edited on 2-22-2021 by bajaric]
[Edited on 2-23-2021 by bajaric]
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David said "the old roadbed we drove on between there (Prosperidad) and San Pablo Canyon entrance"
Would you be kind enough to post one of your updated maps with this area....por favor y gracias.
Don't believe everything you think....
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by motoged | David said "the old roadbed we drove on between there (Prosperidad) and San Pablo Canyon entrance"
Would you be kind enough to post one of your updated maps with this area....por favor y gracias. |
On the Baja Almanac, see Prosperidad in the lower, center:
On my map:
The road going south from Prosperidad...
On my inReach GPS map, 3.5 mile road from Prosperidad to the locked gate:
On this zoomed-in satellite image (from CalTopo.com), I have the brick 1916 house at the top...
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Interesting info. Thanks for posting David.
My great-great grandfather was a Postmaster in Santa Rosalia and geologist for the El Boleo copper mines. In the 1880's I believe. He lived for a time
in Santa Agueda in the mountains above Mulege. Later, he worked as a geologist with the gold rush near Ensenada, opened a hotel in Ensenada and was on
Ensenada's first baseball team. What an interesting life he had.
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Thanks David.
Unknowingly I was close to Prosperidad 10 years ago when riding south out of Guillermo Prieto to just a km or two north of Vizcaino....it was a
sandy road with a bunch of vados full of water ....so through the dez off-track here and there was the fun part.
I love those old stone buildings.
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Baja is such a great place if you love exploring history!
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