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Tecopa, CA - History
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Welcome to the Tecopa Home page. The Tecopa Home page provides as much information as possible on Tecopa. Knowing Tecopa’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Tecopa’s Home page, you will also find Tecopa’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Tecopa has a population of 212. 59% of Tecopa’s inhabitants are Male, and 41 are female. 21.7% of Tecopa is married and 82.9% own their own home. Household median income in Tecopa is $33,173, and the individual median income is $23,452. Tecopa’s Ethnic is the following: White(76.9%), Hispanic(17.5%), Native(16%), Multiple(5.2%), Pacific(1.9%).
The Old Spanish Trail and the later wagon road called the Old Mormon Road or Salt Lake Road, passed from Resting Springs, east of the modern site of Tecopa, 7 miles to Willow Spring on the east bank of the canyon of the Amargosa River (then called Saleratus Creek), below Tecopa and above the mouth of China Ranch Wash.
In 1859, The Prairie Traveler, a popular handbook for overland travelers at that time described it: The spring is on the left of the road, and flows into Saleratus Creek. Animals must not be allowed to drink the Saleratus water." There the trail turned to follow the river south to Salt Springs.William D.
and Robert D. Brown, brothers, founded the town in 1875, and named it Brownsville. When Jonas Osborne bought out the Browns, he renamed the town after Indian Chief Tecopa. Mines developed at Noonday Mine in the 1860s and Tecopa served as the settlement. The town's original site was 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Resting Springs.
Kasson, California was nearby. The present location was developed along the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, which reached the site in 1907.In 1878, it was determined that the original townsite was 300 yards within Inyo county. Settling a dispute with San Bernardino County of who controlled the township.
however, in July 1879, Inyo County Sheriff William Welch considered it a costly mistake because, "it costs five cents a pound freight from San Bernardino here."A post office operated at the original site of Tecopa from 1877 to 1881. A post office opened at the new site in 1907, was closed in 1931, and reopened in 1932.Tecopa was the subject of an important article by John Gregory Dunne published in the Saturday Evening Post and reprinted in Dunne's book, Quintana & Friends, published by Dutton in 1978. In 2006 the Amargosa Conservancy acquired the original townsite for preservation purposes Southern Inyo County Fire Protection District in 2014 received a grant in order to install a water kiosk for the community, since Tecopa lacks proper water infrastructure that is capable of properly filtering ground water to state standards.
The community water kiosk was opened in 2017.
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