Guidebook
NO. 766 FREEMAN JUNCTION - Explorer Joseph R. Walker passed this junction of Indian trails in 1834 after discovering nearby Walker Pass. After their escape from Death Valley, '49er parties split here to go west and south to the California gold fields. Here the bandit Tiburcio Vásquez preyed on stages and freighters traveling between the Kern River mines and Los Angeles and the mines of Bodie and the Panamints.
Location
SR 178, .2 mi. west of SR 14
Open Map
NO. 766 FREEMAN JUNCTION, Marker
NO. 766 FREEMAN JUNCTION, Marker
NO. 766 FREEMAN JUNCTION, State Plaque