Freeman Junction, California
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Freeman Junction was first homesteaded in the 1920's by Clare C. Miley, who was born in 1900. By the 1930's a restaurant, gas station and mining activities dominated the site.
By June 1976 the town had died and the remains of the town have been removed by passersby.
In 1834 explorer Joseph R. Walker passed this junction of Indian trails after discovering nearby Walker Pass. Death Valley 49er parties here diverged west and south after their escape from Death Valley enroute to the California gold fields. Later this became a junction point where the bandit Tiburcio Vasquez preyed on stages and freighters traveling between the Kern River mines and Los Angeles and the mines of Bodie and the Panamints.
California Historical Landmark #766
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