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CAMPO SECO 



Three miles north of Valley Springs, which is on Highway 8 west 

 of San Andreas, is Campo Seeo, scene of the historic legal dispute over 

 the Campo Seco Land Grant. The most interesting buildings in this town 

 are the two story buildings of the Adams Express Company and the 

 smaller buildings adjacent to it (Fig. 82). The fronts of each of these 

 structures is made of carefully dressed blocks of tufaceous sandstone, 

 the sides and rear walls of rough hewn fieldstones of meta-andesitic 

 agglomerate. Just west of this row of buildings the brick oven of an 

 old bakery can be seen (Fig. 83). 



DOGTOWN 



A quarter of a mile north of Altaville on Highway 49 is the Calaver- 

 itas road which turns off to the right. Dogtown, which lay on the edge 

 of the flat at San Domingo Creek, is marked on the right side of the road 

 by a stone fireplace and on the left by a large house ruin of schist set 

 in mud mortar (Fig. 84). 



Calaveritas, about five miles northwest of Dogtown, contains a 

 number of adobe brick buildings erected in 1850 and 1851. Fig. 85 is 

 a photograph of a somewhat dilapidated, but still well preserved struc- 

 ture, built in 1.850. The exterior still bears the original lime plaster 

 which served to protect the mud bricks from disintegration. The bricks 

 measure 13 by 7.5 inches and are 5 inches thick. Just beside this adobe 

 are the remnants of two other buildings whose basement walls, four feet 

 high, are composed of schist, and quartzite rubble and fieldstone laid 

 up in mud mortar with adobe walls on top. Each has an arched doorway 

 in the stone basement wall, which faces to the south. Originally one of 

 these was partially faced with well dressed granite blocks. Just beyond 

 and around the bend is the Costa and Palmer adobe-brick store erected 

 in 1851. The present owner has kept it in nearly perfect condition. 

 Behind, in the farmyard, is a second adobe building, originally a house, 

 which has schist rubble foundation walls. Still a third remnant like 

 the last lies just to the west of the store across a small creek. 



FIG. 80. Adobe building, Jenny Lind, DMBS Cal-Hl7. 



FIG. 81. lone silt-sandstone quarry, Jenny I-ind DMBS Cal-H18. 



