Desert Queen Ranch, Machine Shop, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

Significance: The Keys Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artifacts associated with the Euro-American era of settlement in the Mojave desert. The site is largely intact with nine buildings and four ore mills surviving. The Machine Shop is a long low building used as a blacksmith ship and for the storage of food, two activities related to the self-reliant nature of the site.

Survey number: HABS CA-2347-H

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1933 - 1970

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