Box Canyon - Hornblende Canyon, CA
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bluesnote
N 33° 00.908 W 116° 26.573
11S E 552035 N 3653102
One of a few California State Historical Markers in northeastern San Diego County.
Waymark Code: WM151H8
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2021
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The plaque says, "The old way variously known as Sonora, Colorado River or Southern Emigrant Trail and later as Butterfield Overland Mail Route traversed Box Canyon just east of here. January 19, 1847, the Mormon Battalion, under command of Lt-Col. Philip St G Cooke, using hand tools hewed a passage through the rocky walls of the narrow gorge for their wagons and opened the first road into Southern California."
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