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Mesquite and Manna

Notes on a desert parish: the church year, the desert seasons, neighbours and local memory

Desert memory

Local history, place names, archives and the older web pages that once carried this address.

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A folded 19th-century map of the California desert open on a wooden reading room table, a brass magnifier resting on a dry lake, late afternoon light through a west window.

DM-001Desert memory

Old Map Names in a Modern Desert Address

How place names on antique maps survive into modern desert addresses, what a plate proves, and where to consult old maps of the California desert.