A Window In Time LbNA #72550
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Add Location| Owner: | Hello From Bakersfield  |
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| Plant date: | Dec 25, 2017 |
| Location: | Kern Valley Golf Course |
| City: | Kernville |
| County: | Kern |
| State: | California |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Kelsung |
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| Last found: | Jan 21, 2024 |
| Status: | FFFF |
| Last edited: | Dec 26, 2017 |
A Window in Time Letterbox
Kernville is an amazing place and we head here every Christmas to enjoy the scenic views and the quaint town with its unique shops and restaurants as well as friendly townspeople. This whole area is crammed with memories and history and we tackle a little bit of this history and hikes yearly.
We don’t know much about the Kern Valley Golf Course as we don’t golf and we tried coming here on Christmas morning for breakfast, but they were closed for food.
We do know it was designed by John Ewing and opened in 1961. That’s relatively new for this area, which has history dating back to when California became a state in the 1850’s.
We also know it to be the site of the Keyesville Indian Massacre that happened here on April 19, 1863.
The massacre was prompted by discord between the white settlers and the Indians that already inhabited this area. The first inhabitants in this area were the Tubatulabal Indians. Captain Moses A. McLaughlin, commanding the expedition to Keysville, made a report to his superiors about his expedition that is known as the Indian Massacre in 1863. The Indians involved in his report he referred to as “Tehachapie” and “Owen’s River Indians,” possibly named for the Reservations they had been pushed to by the Westerners.
The day of the massacre, they killed 35 Tubatulabal and Owens Valley Paiute men “about ten miles from Keysville, upon the right bank of the Kern River.”
There is a memorial closer to Wofford Heights, but if you follow the directions given by the witnesses of 1863, the actual site of the massacre may be very much closer to the site of this letterbox.
The memorial site mentioned does not meet the required “ten mile distance up river from Keyesville” mentioned by the report. “The ten mile distance brings the location to the west bank of the Kern above Lake Isabella just below Kernville near the present location of the Kern Valley Golf Course. This seems a likely site for a village, with water and wood, level ground along the river with its resources, and is about ten miles form Keysville, upon the right bank of Kern River.”
This is an easy letterbox to find, but as you find it, step backwards in the window of time and see that this beautiful area was appreciated and sustained a native culture that worshiped the earth as part of their own bodies and therefore found it difficult to be moved off their land in the same way you would find it difficult to remove your skin and leave it behind.
Head to Kernville, CA. Find the Kern Valley Golf Course.
Enter through the main archway.
Park. Find the Cyprus trees to the north of the archway and head to the third one.
Look up under the branches and find the letterbox.
Hide here like an Indian for a few minutes before you depart.
Hike length: 0.1 miles
Kernville is an amazing place and we head here every Christmas to enjoy the scenic views and the quaint town with its unique shops and restaurants as well as friendly townspeople. This whole area is crammed with memories and history and we tackle a little bit of this history and hikes yearly.
We don’t know much about the Kern Valley Golf Course as we don’t golf and we tried coming here on Christmas morning for breakfast, but they were closed for food.
We do know it was designed by John Ewing and opened in 1961. That’s relatively new for this area, which has history dating back to when California became a state in the 1850’s.
We also know it to be the site of the Keyesville Indian Massacre that happened here on April 19, 1863.
The massacre was prompted by discord between the white settlers and the Indians that already inhabited this area. The first inhabitants in this area were the Tubatulabal Indians. Captain Moses A. McLaughlin, commanding the expedition to Keysville, made a report to his superiors about his expedition that is known as the Indian Massacre in 1863. The Indians involved in his report he referred to as “Tehachapie” and “Owen’s River Indians,” possibly named for the Reservations they had been pushed to by the Westerners.
The day of the massacre, they killed 35 Tubatulabal and Owens Valley Paiute men “about ten miles from Keysville, upon the right bank of the Kern River.”
There is a memorial closer to Wofford Heights, but if you follow the directions given by the witnesses of 1863, the actual site of the massacre may be very much closer to the site of this letterbox.
The memorial site mentioned does not meet the required “ten mile distance up river from Keyesville” mentioned by the report. “The ten mile distance brings the location to the west bank of the Kern above Lake Isabella just below Kernville near the present location of the Kern Valley Golf Course. This seems a likely site for a village, with water and wood, level ground along the river with its resources, and is about ten miles form Keysville, upon the right bank of Kern River.”
This is an easy letterbox to find, but as you find it, step backwards in the window of time and see that this beautiful area was appreciated and sustained a native culture that worshiped the earth as part of their own bodies and therefore found it difficult to be moved off their land in the same way you would find it difficult to remove your skin and leave it behind.
Head to Kernville, CA. Find the Kern Valley Golf Course.
Enter through the main archway.
Park. Find the Cyprus trees to the north of the archway and head to the third one.
Look up under the branches and find the letterbox.
Hide here like an Indian for a few minutes before you depart.
Hike length: 0.1 miles