Fort Tejon

Fort Tejon is a former military base of the U.S. Army in California. It was founded in 1854 and was only used for 10 years. The fort is located at the Tejon Pass, the connection through the mountains that connects the Californian Central Valley to the coastal plain around Los Angeles.

Mission of the base was to protect white settlers from attacks by Native American tribes like the Paiute and Mohave. You should also monitor the peaceful tribe of Emigdiano. This strain, which was closely related to the Chumash of Santa Barbara, had several villages in the vicinity of Fort Tejon and was generally regarded as cooperative with the European settlers and the army. Among the curiosities of this army base there heard that the soldiers were for a short time camels as mounts available. However, it proved not to be useful.

1940 gave the Grundeiegentümer around 2 ha on the former location of the fort to the State of California, the Fort Tejon State Historic Park as auswies. Several adobe buildings and cottages have been reconstructed since 1947, the museum today shows both reconstructed rooms and workshops of the fort, as well as documents and other information about the operation of the fort and his time. The park also includes an outdoor area.

The Fort Tejon earthquake of 1857 is named after this camp. The epicenter was located but not at the Tejon Pass, but near Parkfield. The name derives from the fort was, because the inhabitants of the camp were among the few who reported reliably in the then sparsely populated California about this quake.