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Description
This monument is to General Kearny and his Mormon Battalion who used axes to hack their way through Box Canyon until it was large enough to allow wagons through. The canyon was then alternately called, the Great Southern Immigrant’s Trail of the Gold Rush, the Butterfield Overland Stage road, and the California-Sonora Trail of the Mexican Era. It became the first direct route into Southern California. The plaque pictured here commemorates the trailblazers of the Mormon Battalion and designates the spot as California Historical Landmark # 472.
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