Harmony Borax Works
Place 11 of 11California, USA

Harmony Borax Works

Harmony Borax Works emblem

The history

The 1880s works where borax was refined and hauled out by the famous twenty-mule teams on 165-mile trips across the desert — the operation that first made Death Valley famous.

The archival photograph

Borax Smith's mine at Borate or Harmony, California, ca.1890-1900 (CHS-1598).jpg
1890 — Borax Smith's mine at Borate or Harmony, California, ca.1890-1900 (CHS-1598) · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is