Palm Springs
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- Names
Palm Springs
Agua Caliente
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located in Coachella Valley; expanded around hot springs & Palm Valley Colony founded by Judge John G McCallum late 19th cen.; laid out in checkerboard pattern 1860s, in conjunction with Southern Pacific Railroad; alternating land granted to Amerindians.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
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