Desert Center

When Stephen and Lydia Ragsdale broke down in the desert on their way to Los Angeles, a prospector named Peter Gruendyke rescued them by providing a phone and shelter while they waited for the service truck. Peter lived alongside the ...

Desert Center, CA

When Stephen and Lydia Ragsdale broke down in the desert on their way to Los Angeles, a prospector named Peter Gruendyke rescued them by providing a phone and shelter while they waited for the service truck. Peter lived alongside the ...

The Desert Training Center

[This is a four sided monument displaying three different markers:]

Front - Facing West:

Desert Training Center

* Camp Young *

Maj. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., U.S. Army, selected Camp Young as headquarters site for the Desert Training Center in March 1942. Camp ...

The Desert Studies Center

[Panel #1]

1776 - 1830: Early Explorers

Francisco Garces

1776 - As the Revolutionary War broke out, California was still a province of Spain, and the Spanish government decided to help feed a hungry Mexico by farming the fertile valleys around Monterey and ...

Desert Training Center

California-Arizona Maneuver Area

This monument is dedicated to the men and women of the United States Army who were trained here at the Desert Training Center during World War II.

Marker is on Chiriaco Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

Desert Training Center

California-Arizona Maneuver Area

This monument is dedicated to the men and women of the United States Army who were trained here at the Desert Training Center during World War II.

Marker is on Chiriaco Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

Ibis Divisional Camp - Desert Training Center

California – Arizona Maneuver Area

Camp Ibis was established at this site in the spring of 1942 – one of eleven such camps built in the California – Arizona Desert to harden and train United States Troops for service on the ...