Colton
The US flag still flies at Cement MT. In Colton
Submitted by Ghostpainter on Thu, 2008-08-14 14:55. Colton | History of the Inland Empire
Located on the southern side of the 10 freeway in Colton on Slover, Cement Mountain has been a physical icon of the inland empire for over 150 years. I remember as a kid going by the mountain on the 10 freeway with my parents on my way to my uncles house in Colton. Back then the MT was estimated to still be around 700 feet high. I often wondered how long it would be before the mountain disappeared and if they would stop digging and blasting for cement.
Wyatt Earp; Thief, Marshall, Gold Miner was never injured in a gunfight.
Submitted by Ghostpainter on Fri, 2008-08-01 11:43. Colton | History of the Inland Empire
As often the case of many old time lawmen, many of the best and most famous came from checkered backgrounds. Wyatt was one of those. In 1870 Earp was elected constable of Lamar, Missouri. Later that year he married his first wife, Urilla Sutherland, but she died about 3 months later of typhoid. His job as constable came to an end when Earp was arrested for horse theft which he denied but the local citizens decided they needed a change from his heavy fisted tactics when dealing with people. He managed to escape and became a buffalo hunter in Kansas. Earp then moved to Wichita where he married a local prostitute. He also joined the Wichita police force. However, he was fired again in April 1876 after a fight with a fellow officer over his previous indiscretions.
Train watching in Colton has always been interesting,
Submitted by Ghostpainter on Thu, 2007-05-10 15:02. Colton | Outdoor FunBut now its going to downright fascinating.
Colton is the site of Colton Crossing, one of the busiest at-grade railroad crossings in the United States.....The main transcontinental trunk lines of Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe cross at this point.....As traffic on each line has soared since the mid-1990s, fueled largely by the vast increase in imports passing through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the primitive crossing has become a serious bottleneck......The crossing was installed in August 1882 by the California Southern Railroad to cross the Southern Pacific Railroad's tracks while building northward from San Diego.
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