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Barstow, CA - History
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Welcome to the Barstow Home page. The Barstow Home page provides as much information as possible on Barstow. Knowing Barstow’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Barstow’s Home page, you will also find Barstow’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Barstow has a population of 23547. 46.7% of Barstow’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.3 are female. 30.1% of Barstow is married and 41% own their own home. The Average Home price is $124,639, and the average rent is $812. Household median income in Barstow is $42,912, and the individual median income is $24,738. Barstow’s Ethnic is the following: White(49.4%), Hispanic(44.8%), Black(16.8%), Multiple(15.1%), Other(11.3%), Asian(2.7%), Native(2.4%), Pacific(2.3%).
The settlement of Barstow began in the late 1840s in the Mormon Corridor. Every fall and winter, as the weather cooled, the rain produced new grass growth and replenished the water sources in the Mojave Desert. People, goods, and animal herds would move from New Mexico and later Utah to Los Angeles, along the Old Spanish Trail from Santa Fe, or after 1848, on the Mormon Road from Salt Lake City.
Trains of freight wagons traveled back to Salt Lake City and other points in the interior. These travelers followed the course of the Mojave River, watering and camping at Fish Ponds on its south bank (west of Nebo Center) or 3.625 miles up river on the north bank, at a riverside grove of willows and cottonwoods, festooned with wild grapes, called Grapevines (later the site of North Barstow).
In 1859, the Mojave Road followed a route that was established from Los Angeles to Fort Mojave through Grapevines that linked eastward with the Beale Wagon Road across northern New Mexico Territory to Santa Fe. Troubles with the Paiute, Mojave, and Chemehuevi tribes followed, and from 1860 Camp Cady, a U.S.
Army post 20 miles (32 km) east of Barstow, was occupied sporadically until 1864, then permanently, by soldiers occupying other posts on the Mojave Road or patrolling in the region until 1871. Trading posts were established at Grapevines and Fish Ponds that supplied travelers on the roads and increasingly the miners that came into the Mojave Desert after the end of hostilities with the native people.Barstow's roots also lie in the rich mining history of the Mojave Desert following the discovery of gold and silver in the Owens Valley and in mountains to the east in the 1860s and 1870s.
Due to the influx of miners arriving in Calico and Daggett, railroads were constructed to transport goods and people. The Southern Pacific built a line from Mojave, California through Barstow to Needles in 1883. In 1884, ownership of the line from Needles to Mojave was transferred to the Santa Fe Railroad.
Paving the major highways through Barstow led to further development of the city. Much of its economy depends on transportation. Before the advent of the interstate highway system, Barstow was an important stop on both Routes 66 and 91. The two routes met in downtown Barstow and continued west together to Los Angeles. Barstow is named after William Barstow Strong, former president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
Some early Barstow names were Camp Sugarloaf, Grapevine, Waterman Junction and Fishpond.
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