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Title: Old Harmony Borax Mill
Creator: Hepting, Ernest "Pete
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946/02/23
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: Old Harmony Borax Mill refined borax here in the 1880s and freighted 165 miles to Mojave in the 20 Mule Team wagon. Founded by William Coleman in 1882 and aquired by Francis Marion "Borax" Smith (1846-1931) and abandoned when colemanite ore proved more commercially profitable than the cottonball borax gathered from the surface of lakes and playas.
Type: image
Identifier: AD93709C-CA88-47F4-BFE2-803025139915
2006/023/0565
Subject: Inyo County
Death Valley
Furnace Creek, Death Valley

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