Echo Canyon

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1) that's not the spot with the cool old stuff DAW mentions - despite the name there's really nothing there.

I have photos on ghosttowns.com from my visit to the Schwab townsite in 2000. But for some reason can’t copy the actual page link. So I’ll just paste in my photos instead.









Author/publisher Alan Patera and author Alan Henscher and I visited the site and found the remains of what appeared to be a main street up on a flat but downhill shelf above the main wash on the northern side of the canyon. We found wood lined cellars on both sides of the “street”, stone abutments indicating that some of the tent structures hung off the edge and were supported from below. We found metal bits and pieces, purple glass, tin cans. About a quarter mile from the shelf, we found other remains of stone dwellings, as well as a “grave” of a Death Valley “victim”. The cross was made of wood, well weathered; but a wooden cross with its origin during Schwab’s active months would have been reduced to sawdust long ago from weathering. I’ve not come across any deaths at Schwab, nor is there any known cemetery. It just didn’t last very long.

The topo map spells Schwab incorrectly, all contemporary newspapers I’ve read, as well as the documents for the townsite filing at the courthouse in Independence spells it as Schwab.