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

Keeler has a population of 6. 100% of Keeler’s inhabitants are Male, and 0 are female. 100% of Keeler is married and 100% own their own home. Keeler’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%).


When the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake rendered the pier in nearby Swansea inaccessible by uplifting the shoreline, a new pier was constructed to the south at a community named Hawley. In 1880 a new mill was constructed at Hawley by the Owens Lake Mining and Milling Company for processing silver ore from the Cerro Gordo Mines in the mountains to the east.


A town was laid out by the company agent Julius M. Keeler, for whom the town of Hawley was later renamed. The steamship Bessie Brady brought ore from Keeler across the lake to the town of Cartago. There was a 300-foot wharf at Keeler, and the steamship route cut days off the time a freight wagon would have taken to circle the lake.


She carried 700 ingots at a time in a three-hour crossing, but in 1882 the Bessie Brady was destroyed by fire. The Carson and Colorado Railroad constructed a narrow gauge railway to Keeler in 1883. The success of the Cerro Gordo mines caused Keeler to boom until silver prices plummeted in the late 19th century. A second boom of zinc mining in the early 20th century brought new life to the town and an aerial cable tramway was built to bring the ore from Cerro Gordo to Keeler.


There were small surges in the mining of silver, lead, zinc and limestone, but by the 1950s all mining had ceased. Train service was stopped in 1960 and the tracks were removed in 1961. Water exports from the Owens Valley to the City of Los Angeles in the 1920s led the Owens Lake to eventually dry up, causing alkali dust storms to blow through Keeler, driving many residents away.


Dust remediation efforts in the early 21st century reduced this problem, but few residents remain. A post office operated at Keeler from 1883 to 1898 and is still operating today. There is a California Historical Landmark in Keeler for the furnace of the Owens Lake Silver Company.


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