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Gorman is an
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in northwestern
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, California, United States. It is located in Peace Valley south of the
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, which links
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with the
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and
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. Due to this location, the area has served as a historic travel stop dating back to the
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. Tens of thousands of motorists travel through Gorman daily on the Golden State Freeway (
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) since the highway's completion in the mid-20th Century.


Geography

Gorman is in size. It lies where three Transverse System
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s meet, namely the
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, the
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, and the
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. One of the
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, it is southeast of Frazier Park and south of Lebec. Interstate 5 runs through Gorman, and State Route 138 connects to the freeway a few miles south. California poppies, lupines, and other wildflowers dramatically cover the hills in the springtime when there is sufficient rain. Gorman is near the intersection of the two largest fault systems in California: the
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which slices directly through Gorman in a southeast–northwest direction, and the Garlock Fault which intersects the San Andreas about 5 km (3 miles) WNW of the town and travels approximately 250 km (160 mi) northeast along the Tehachapi Mountains to the
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in the Mojave Desert.


Population

The U.S. Census Bureau does not break out separate population figures for this small place, but in 2005 Gorman had only 15 homes and approximately a dozen registered voters.Daryl Kelley, "Hills Alive With Sound of Secession" ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 24, 2005, page B-1

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History


18th century

Gorman is "one of the oldest continuously used trail and roadside rest stops in California," as the Native Americans of California "would have stopped there when it was the Tataviam village of Kulshra'jek" explains Mountain Communities historian Bonnie Ketterl Kane. The Spanish and Mexican colonial El Camino Viejo passed through the area en route to Old Tejon Pass. The route of the Stockton–Los Angeles Road went through
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after 1852.


19th century

The Gorman area was part of Rancho Los Alamos y Agua Caliente, an 1846 Mexican land grant. The first American settler in the area was a man named Charles Johnson, after 1853. The 1853 account of Lt. Robert S. Williamson of the vicinity for the
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survey expedition report makes no mention of any habitations on the east side of the pass, only that a good wagon road ( Stockton–Los Angeles Road) passed through it. After Johnson's death, his widow, Soledad Girado ran the place, which by 1855 had become known as Rancho la Viuda (Widow's Station). Historian Frank F. Latta noted that the Johnsons' daughter, Isabel, was the only girl to study at the historic Escuela Normal of Los Angeles in the 1860s.Frank F. Latta, ''Saga of Rancho El Tejón,'' Santa Cruz, California: Bear State Books, 1976. p. 21


Reed's Station

A man named Reed took up residence next, calling it Reed's Ranch. In 1857 a woman was killed on his ranch when the great Fort Tejon earthquake struck the area and collapsed the roof of his adobe house.Southern California earthquake Cente
''SCEDC Fort Tejon Earthquake (1857)''
Reed then built a substantial log house, which became Reed's Station, on the Butterfield Overland Mail 1st Division Stations in 1858. A stop for the postal stagecoach, it was located 8 miles southeast of Fort Tejon and 14 miles west of French John's Station. The
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ceased in 1861, but was replaced later by the Telegraph Stage Line, which stopped at most of the former stations, including at renamed Gorman's, where the horses were changed. Six of them were used for the pull up
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from Bakersfield to Gorman's.


Gorman

It was next bought by David W. Alexander, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, who sold the place to James Gorman Sr. in 1867 or 1868.Harrison Irving Scott, ''The Road That United California,''
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, 2002. See the book's index for the page numbers.
The log "
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", which furnished food, lodgings, and liquor, soon became known as Gorman's Station a.k.a. Gorman Station. James Gorman was reportedly at
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as a civilian teamster and herder in 1854 while it was being built. On May 7, 1873, Gorman died on the ride home from Los Angeles after he fell out of his supply wagon and was run over by its own wheels. The first post office at Gorman Station was established sometime between December 1, 1877, and March 1, 1878, with Mary E. Wilson – likely James Gorman's sister-in-law – as postmaster. Henry Gorman, James's son, was appointed postmaster in January 1887; Edward Gorman, another son, took over the position in September 1893. (The community today is served by a contract postal unit in the local market, but delivery is through the Lebec post office.) James Gorman's widow, Johanna, continued to run the family farm and the roadside rest until she died in 1889. In or around 1898, the ranch was bought by Oscar Ralphs, whose brother, George, had already begun a business in Los Angeles (in 1872) that eventually became the
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supermarket chain.


20th century

In 1901, Oscar Ralphs married Mary McKenzie, who, as Mary Ralphs, later served 57 years on the Gorman
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(from 1908 to 1965) and was honored for her service by Vice President Hubert Humphrey at a
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convention. The 1960 movie '' Psycho'' also briefly featured footage filmed in the township. ;Ridge Route The Ridge Route road through Gorman was paved in 1919. In 1923, the first
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in California to be located away from a railroad track was established by
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. Gorman was a stop on the Ridge Route, and Highway 99 after 1926, where its Standard service station beckoned travelers. It was a
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for the Greyhound bus until 1977, and for long-distance truckers. "Being located on the busiest highway in California," wrote historian Kane, "the people of Gorman knew well the need for an ambulance, as so many of the injured were brought to their homes. An ambulance service was established in 1932 with the purchase of an old Packard automobile that was converted into an emergency unit, equipped with one stretcher. The ambulance could be reached through the switchboard at the motel, and whoever was available would drive it." Aviator
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established a camp in 1930 on the northeast side of the Gorman Hills, where he tested and flew a folded-wing glider called the Albatross. ;Interstate 5
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replaced U.S. Route 99 through Gorman and over Tejon Pass in 1964. ;The Umbrellas " The Umbrellas," a site-specific art installation by
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, surrounded Gorman and Tejon Pass in late September and early October 1991. It was created with 1,760 large yellow umbrellas, placed from the roadsides to the mountainsides. A simultaneous installation of blue umbrellas was created in Japan. Thousands of visitors flocked to Gorman from all over the world.


21st century

In January 2006, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected a bid by 32 of the area's 75 property owners to give up Gorman so it could be annexed to
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. Reasons cited for the proposal included
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and zoning regulations restricting development in Los Angeles County. However, Los Angeles County and opponents of the proposal did not want to lose sales and occupancy-tax revenue the county collected annually from Gorman businesses. On June 15, 2024, a wildfire known as the Post Fire broke out in Gorman. It quickly burned 22 square miles of land near the Interstate 5 freeway. More than a thousand firefighters were assigned to battle the blaze, particularly near the Pyramid Lake recreation area. The fire was 100% contained on Wednesday, June 26, after burning for 11 days. The cause is under investigation.


Government and infrastructure

The
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(LASD) operates a resident deputy program in Gorman staffed by two deputies. Oversight of the Gorman substation is provided by the Santa Clarita Valley Station in Santa Clarita. Deputy Sheriff Arthur E. Pelino, the then resident deputy of Gorman, was shot and killed at his Gorman office with his own firearm by a suspect he was processing in 1978. The County of Los Angeles sends a
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to Gorman every Tuesday.


Education


Gorman Joint School District


Gorman Elementary School

Accounts differ as to the origin of Gorman Elementary School, although the pioneer Ralphs family certainly played a role in its founding. According to researcher Harrison Irving Scott, the first school in the area appears to have been the one-room Manzana School, a mile south of Gorman, where in 1925 there were only four pupils — the Ralphs brothers, Glenn, Harry, Albert and Dewey. After it was torn down, the children went to Quail Lake School in another
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house. Gorman Elementary School was built by the federal government's
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in 1939. There is no accessible record of the first teacher, but Martha Forth was the second; she taught in 1941–1943. In 2009, Ruth Ralphs confirmed that the first teacher lived with her grandparents, Oscar and Mary Ralphs, but she couldn't remember the teacher's name. John "Glenn" Ralphs confirmed her identity as Mary "May" Barto Mertz. Ms. Mertz taught school in the Ralph's family living room, and continued for a time after the school was relocated (see below). She remained a friend of the family after she left to be married, and would visit Gorman, taking her son, George Dale Beasley with her. Esther Pereira wrote in the ''Mountain Enterprise'', however, that the Ralphs family "founded the school originally as the Quail Lake District. Classes were held in the Ralphs' family
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. The school was relocated to its present site and built on land donated by the Ralphs family, where it became known as the Gorman School District." In 1990 Gorman had the smallest school district, and the smallest school in Los Angeles County, with just three classrooms, each with combined grades.


Threats to the district's existence

Gorman School District is the smallest in Los Angeles County, and over the years it has faced threats to its existence. In 1971 it was saved when the state Legislature narrowly defeated a measure that would have done away with school districts with fewer than 50 pupils. Attendance in Gorman School dropped to 32 pupils, and townspeople hustled to "borrow" 11 children from elsewhere in order to keep up the enrollment."Gorman Residents Fight to Save County's Tiniest School District," ''Los Angeles Times,''
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Section, June 20, 1971, page C-1
"Everybody in town immediately panicked," District Superintendent Lacy H. Ballagh said. "We knew that if the bill passed, our children would probably be sent to the Quartz Hill School District on the outskirts of
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and almost away." In November 1978 the district was threatened when funding was curbed by the passage that year of California Proposition 13, placing a limit on the rate at which property taxes could be raised. Reduced salaries and other cost-cutting measures saved the district at that time."District May Fold: Last Trip Near for Tired
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," ''Los Angeles Times,'' San Fernando Valley Section, page A-1
By fall 2008, there was only one child from Gorman attending the elementary school; 40 came from the
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and one was from Neenach in the Westside Union School District. The Los Angeles County Office of Education had warned a year earlier that the district might be dissolved if it did not find a way to solve its problems. But a land developer, Centennial Founders, in the meantime stepped forth with the desire to save the school district until it could build a proposed 23,000-house
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east of Interstate 5 on
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property along Highway 138. It agreed to pay for a consultant to help the district find ways to stay afloat financially until the houses could be built and new schools constructed and operated there by the Gorman district.


Enrollment

In September 2008, Gorman Joint School District had just one K-8 elementary school with an enrollment of 42 pupils, only one of whom lived in Gorman. The others were transfers from neighboring
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or Neenach in the Westside Union School District. In December 2010 Superintendent and Principal Martin Schmidt said that the district was at that point entirely a "school of choice" which had more than doubled its enrollment to 98 pupils and increased its Academic Performance Score from 679 to 784, with 800 being the goal for achievement. The increase in enrollment brought twice as much money from the state as before. Johannis Andrews, the principal for the 2011–2012 academic year, said in August 2011 that attendance had increased to 101 pupils, with five teachers. In order to bring in additional average-daily-attendance funds from the state, the district before 2008 took on responsibility for the Gorman Learning Center
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in Redlands, awa
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The center had about 800 home-school pupils enrolled.


Ruth Ralphs

In January 2008, Ruth Ralphs was honored for 33 years of service to the Gorman School District. Ralphs was secretary-treasurer of James L. Ralphs Inc. and vice president of Tri-Foods, which owned
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in Gorman. A native of
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, Queensland, Australia, she died at the age of 90 on December 30, 2010. "During many of those 33 years, Ruth also managed Ralphs' family enterprises (such as gas stations, motels, a cafe,
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and an antenna) while serving as postmistress of the Gorman Post Office," the local newspaper, the ''Mountain Enterprise,'' reported.


High schools

The Gorman area is a part of the
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, but in 1996 just four of its 24 high school children traveled the to attend
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in
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, the closest high school in that district. The others attended nearby Frazier Mountain High School under special permits.


Community colleges

Gorman is part of the Antelope Valley Community College District, whose
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campus is away via Highway 138 and West Avenue I.


Transportation

Seventy-four thousand people pass through Gorman daily via the Interstate 5 freeway, but residents have a choice of local roads to avoid the freeway. Peace Valley Road parallels the freeway on the west, north of the town, for travel to Frazier Park and Lebec, and Gorman Post Road on the east, south of town, is a direct route to State Route 138. Kern Transit provides bus service from Gorman to Lebec, Frazier Park,
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, Pinon Pines, and Pine Mountain Club. It offers a dial-a-ride service all year. Connections can be made in Frazier Park or Lebec to scheduled service to
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, Santa Clarita, and
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and further connection there to
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and
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.


See also

*'' The Mountain Enterprise'' newspaper, which circulates in Gorman and the surrounding area. *
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.


References and notes


External links


''A History of Gorman,''
by Bonnie Ketterl Kane {{authority control Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass Unincorporated communities in Los Angeles County, California San Emigdio Mountains Sierra Pelona Ridge Tehachapi Mountains 1858 establishments in California Populated places established in 1858 Butterfield Overland Mail in California Stagecoach stops in the United States Unincorporated communities in California