Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Last week I wrote a column about the mines of Soledad Mountain from the perspective of Viola White Jennings, who with her family lived around that area. The article was from the collection of my mother, Marion Deaver. This week I will wrap up the remembrances of this lady. I concluded last week with Jennings and her sister avoiding snakes on that mountain. In all the years I have roamed around the deserts of East Kern, I have only happened upon a rattlesnake twice. Once however, was in January,...
I found an extensive article in my mother, Marion Deaver's files, about two sisters who traveled in 1970 to visit their old home, by then located at Tropico Mine and Gold Camp. The two sisters were Viola White Jennings, from San Bernardino, and Marjorie, from Buena Park. When they first looked for their home at Soledad Mountain they thought it had been torn down, but later learned that it was located in Rosamond at the gold camp. Visiting the old home and other old buildings at the camp brought...
