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Baker, CA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Baker  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Baker Home page. The Baker Home page provides as much information as possible on Baker. Knowing Baker’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Baker’s Home page, you will also find Baker’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Baker has a population of 602. 48% of Baker’s inhabitants are Male, and 52 are female. 50.1% of Baker is married and 32.8% own their own home. Household median income in Baker is $37,500, and the individual median income is $15,938. Baker’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(80.6%), White(63%), Multiple(15.1%), Other(8.6%), Asian(5.8%), Native(5.1%), Pacific(2.3%).


Baker was founded as a station on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad in 1908 and was named for Richard C. Baker, business partner of Francis Marion Smith in building the railroad. Baker later became president of the T&T himself.Baker was established in 1929 by Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks (1857–1942), who was an American prospector, entrepreneur, and pioneer who established several towns in the Death Valley area of California, including Fairbanks Springs (1904–05) and Shoshone (1910). It is the site of a vacant, 223-bed for-profit prison formerly operated by Cornell Corrections which experienced a major riot on December 2, 2003, four weeks before it was temporarily closed.


It was permanently closed on December 25, 2009. GEO Group purchased Cornell Companies, its owner, on August 12, 2010. It had previously experienced escapes in August and November 1995 and two on July 15, 1997.


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