First printed: 2014

Three miles north of Coso Junction off California Highway 395, Dunmovin served as a rest station for mule trains carrying silver ingots from the Cerro Gordo mines to Los Angeles in the late 1800s. Over the years, the town had a post office, service station, store, cafe, and tourist accommodations, but when I captured this image from an abandoned cabin, the businesses were all closed and NO TRESPASSING signs were posted along the perimeter.

A couple of years later I had the opportunity to meet the town’s owner, Robert Ray, who lived in a doublewide trailer towards the back of the forlorn property; this despite owning several valuable mining assets. Robert told me the town was named Dunmovin because, by the time he settled there, his wife was “done movin.” I suspect the statement may, in part, be apocryphal.

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