Gerstley, California

Gerstley is a former settlement in Inyo County, California.^[1]

It was located on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Shoshone.^[1]

Gerstley was founded around 1921, and named in honor of James Gerstley, Sr. by his business associate Francis Marion Smith who built the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad. Together with Richard C. Baker, the three men had formed Borax Consolidated, Ltd. in 1899.^[2]^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1202. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
^ Hildebrand, GH. (1982) Borax Pioneer: Francis Marion Smith. San Diego: Howell-North Books. p. 79. ISBN 0-8310-7148-6
^ "Map showing Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad Company line from Ludlow, California to Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1907 | UNLV Special Collections Portal". special.library.unlv.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-24.

36°02′01″N 116°17′30″W / 36.0336°N 116.2917°W / 36.0336; -116.2917

This Inyo County, California-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Gerstley,_California
Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.

[CGN-1] Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1202. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

[2] Hildebrand, GH. (1982) Borax Pioneer: Francis Marion Smith. San Diego: Howell-North Books. p. 79. ISBN 0-8310-7148-6

[3] "Map showing Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad Company line from Ludlow, California to Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1907 | UNLV Special Collections Portal". special.library.unlv.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-24.

[1]

[2]

[3]

v t e Municipalities and communities of Inyo County, California, United States
County seat: Independence
City	Bishop	Inyo County map
CDPs	Big Pine Cartago Charleston View Darwin Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek Furnace Creek Homewood Canyon Independence Keeler Lone Pine Mesa Olancha Pearsonville Round Valley Shoshone Tecopa Trona Valley Wells West Bishop Wilkerson
Unincorporated communities	Alabama Hills Aspendell Badwater Ballarat Coso Junction Crater Death Valley Junction Deep Springs Dolomite Dunmovin Fish Springs Grant Haiwee Harrisburg Indian Village Kearsarge Laws Millspaugh Owenyo Panamint Springs Park Village Poleta Rovana Ryan Stovepipe Wells Sandy Valley Zurich
Indian reservations	Big Pine Reservation Bishop Paiute Reservation Fort Independence Reservation Lone Pine Reservation Timbisha Shoshone Reservation
Ghost towns	Bend City Beveridge Burnt Wagons Cerro Gordo Chloride City Chrysopolis Coso Echo Greenwater Gerstley Kearsarge Leadfield Lee Lila C Lookout City Manzanar Narka Noonday Camp Owensville Panamint City Reilly Reward Roachville San Carlos Schwaub Sodan Sunland Swansea White Mountain City
Other	Coso County, California
California portal United States portal

See also

References