Cartago, California

Piles of potash and ruins from a processing plant that closed many years ago cover the area around the town of Cartago, which was once a port on Owens Lake. In the 1870s, bullion from the mines at Cerro Gordo that were shipped across the lake landed here, and were transferred on to Remi Nadeu's 14 mule teams for transport to Los Angeles. The teams then returned, full of provisions that were shipped across the lake to Keeler and up to the mines. This commerce helped to stimulate the formation of the City of Los Angeles.