EPISODE #248: MAPPING THE MOJAVE WITH COL. HENRY WASHINGTON
Out here in the Great Mojave Wilderness, we’re always talking about Section 6 or Section 33 or Section whatever it is, but how did we get that system, that public-lands overlay? Who did the work? Tonight we tell you about . . . well, not the father of our country, but his nephew. The nephew of our country. Col. Henry Washington, the man who surveyed and plotted the baseline and the meridian back in the 1850s, the defining lines by which all other property in Southern California is measured. He named a lot of desert landmarks, too. Like “Old Woman Springs,” that’s one of his many desert place-names still on the maps and on our minds, nearly two centuries later.
This is EPISODE #248: MAPPING THE MOJAVE WITH COL. HENRY WASHINGTON. With fitting desert soundscape by RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & hosted by Ken Layne. Listen on the radio in Joshua Tree and across the Mojave High Desert on KCDZ 107.7 FM, 10-11 p.m. Fridays.
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