JoshuaTreeChamber.org
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Joshua Tree is nestled in a segment of the Southeastern California’s Mojave Desert, thirty-five miles from Palm Springs, California off the I-10 freeway on State Route 62. Joshua Tree is the gateway community to the West Entrance of Joshua Tree National Park, an 800,000 acre wilderness preserve, with groves of Joshua Trees, incredible multi-colored, gigantic boulders and some the best rock climbing in the world!
The community of Joshua Tree encompasses 96 square miles and is adorned with spectacular desert and geological scenery in addition to the ancient Joshua tree itself. It is believed that Mormon pioneers, traveling through the area, named this tree after the biblical figure Joshua, because its uplifted limbs reminded them of him praying and waving to the heavens. Later, an early western explorer, John Fremont called the Joshua tree, "The most repulsive tree in the vegetable kingdom." This tree is unlike any other, and it does create atypical responses. The Joshua tree does not have growth rings like a normal tree, so determining its age can be difficult. But, most biologists have estimated the age range of these trees to be somewhere around 500 to 900 years old. This spectacular tree is considered a prominent icon of the Hi-Desert; and because of its distinctive character, it is not uncommon to see Joshua trees in national commercials.
History
The earliest known history on the Joshua Tree community is when homesteaders first filed on a site in the fall of 1911. Within a few short years, the Joshua Tree Townsite Company constructed its first offices along the Twentynine Palms Road, close to the West Park Entrance. Then in 1938, Congress passed the “Baby Homestead Act,” allowing five-acre, non-agricultural homestead sites. Developers had hoped this act would bring new settlers to the area but World War II intervened. Instead, the war triggered gas rationing, restrictions on building supplies, and prevented growth into the outlying desert areas. By 1941, Joshua Tree’s total population reached forty-nine people with twenty-two occupied buildings.
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