Address Restricted, Desert Center, California. County/parish: Riverside.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 30, 1998. NRIS 98001286.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Corn Springs is a palm oasis situated in the Chuckwalla Mountains of the Colorado Desert in Riverside County, California, United States, seventeen miles southeast of Desert Center. Native Americans relied on the springs, and they engraved many petroglyphs on the rocks in the area. In the late 19th century, miners in the area also relied on the springs, and they established the Corn Springs Mining District in 1897.
The springs were added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
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