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Van Horn Wells

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    Only watering place in wide region. Stage stand on the San Antonio to San Diego route, 1857-1882. Occupied by Captain J.J. Van Horn and Co. F, Eighth U.S. Infantry in 1859 while engaged in protecting the frontier against marauding Indians. The high peaks served as heliograph stations.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008


  		   

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