Alamo Solo Spring, (Lone Cottonwood Spring) a spring directly east of the
Dagany Gap in the
Pyramid Hills of
Kern County, California.
Its location appears on a 1914 USGS
Topographic map of Lost Hills.
History
Before the advent of the Spanish, Alamo Solo Spring was the site of a large Indian village covering about 100
acre
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s. Alamo Solo Spring was considered one of the most reliable watering places on the route of
El Camino Viejo
El Camino Viejo a Los Ángeles ( en, the Old Road to Los Angeles), also known as El Camino Viejo and the Old Los Angeles Trail, was the oldest north-south trail in the interior of Spanish colonial Las Californias (1769–1822) and Mexican Alta Cali ...
in the
San Joaquin Valley between
Arroyo de las Garzas and
Aguaje de la Brea. At Alamo Solo Spring the route of El Camino Viejo split, the main route continuing north to Arroyo de las Garzas and beyond and the other turned onto the
eastern route of the Old Road that passed to the east at
Alamo Mocho and on to follow the shore of
Tulare Lake, proceeding northward across the
Kings River to settlements on the
Fresno Slough Fresno Slough is a distributary of the Kings River that connects the North Fork Kings River to the San Joaquin River in San Joaquin Valley, Kings County, California.
Until 1879 when irrigation diversions prevented it, Fresno Slough was also an out ...
and
San Joaquin River before it turned back to rejoin the main route at
Arroyo de Panoche Grande.
[Mildred Brooke Hoover, Historic spots in California, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990, p.124]
References
El Camino Viejo
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