Point of Rocks is a

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of mountain range, as yet unnamed, that projects into the bed of the Mojave River in San Bernardino County,

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. This range of mountains runs south to north along the east side of the Mojave River between Oro Grande and the mountain that Point of Rocks is a part, a mile northeast of

Helendale Helendale or Silver Lakes is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in the Victor Valley of the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California. It is on historic Route 66, west of the Mojave Freeway (I-15), be ...

History

Point of Rocks was a landmark along the

Mojave Trail The Mojave Road, also known as Old Government Road (formerly the Mohave Trail), is a historic route and present day dirt road across what is now the Mojave National Preserve in the Mojave Desert in the United States. This rough road stretched f ...

, and its successors, the Old Spanish Trail and the Mormon Road that followed the riverbed. It marked a point where the Mojave River would appear above ground to run on the surface surrounded by grassland, marshes and groves of cottonwood and willow. This made it a camping spot along the old trails and roads that followed the river. In 1863, the area of Point of Rocks was first settled by the Nicholson family. The later railroad built along the river there was built through a cut through the Point above the river, and the later automobile roads avoided it passing to the east of the mountain at Helendale. Point of Rocks (California)
from mapper.acme.com accessed, March 30, 2016

References

Landforms of San Bernardino County, California Mormon Road {{SanBernardinoCountyCA-geo-stub