Country United States County Inyo County Local time Monday 9:26 AM | State California Elevation 1,136 m | |
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Weather 18°C, Wind S at 5 km/h, 26% Humidity | ||
Manzanar (Spanish for "apple orchard"; formerly, Manzanar Gate and Francis) was a town in Inyo County, California found by Canadian-American water engineer George Chaffey.
Map of Manzanar, CA, USA
It is located on the former Narrow gauge railway line of the Southern Pacific Railroad 9 miles (14 km) north of Lone Pine, at an elevation of 3,727 feet (1,136.0 m).
A post office operated at Manzanar from 1911 to 1914. Manzanar served as a shipping point for the surrounding productive apple orchards prior to the early 1900s diversion of water by the Los Angeles Aqueduct from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles.
Nearby, during World War II, the area was the location of the Manzanar Japanese American internment Camp.
References
Manzanar, California Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA