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The US flag still flies at Cement MT. In Colton

Submitted by Ghostpainter on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 2:55pm

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, 08/01/2008 - 11:43am

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.

Wyatt was born in Montmouth, Illinois, in 1848. His father moved the entire family to San Bernardino, and as a teen, joined his older brother, Virgil, as a freighter-teamster between Wilmington to Prescott, Arizona during the 1860's.

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, 05/10/2007 - 3:02pm

But now its going to downright fascinating.

Colton Crossing

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.

Wyatt Earp Grew up in Colton and the true story of the OK Coral Gunfight.

Submitted by Ghostpainter on Sat, 03/17/2007 - 12:06pm

If you have ever watched movies about Wyatt Earp you are always of the impression that he and his brothers came from the East or the Midwest....Truth be known his family had moved to Colton when Wyatt, James and Virgil were very young....They went east to find there fortunes....what they found was fame, death and some gold and silver along the way....This is the story of the Earps Of Colton.

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