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To reach a phone in Death Valley Junction when the area was under manual service required dialing the operator and asking for 'Death Valley Junction, California, Toll Station' (and the one-digit number). Local wired telephones were manual telephone service until the 1980s. When the Death Valley Railroad was established in 1914, it used of tracks belonging to the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad east-southeast of Death Valley Junction to Horton. In 1980 the town was included in the National Register of Historic Places as the 'Death Valley Junction Historic District.' The Amargosa post office opened in 1962, changed its name to Death Valley Junction in 1968. The Death Valley post office opened in 1908 and transferred to Furnace Creek Ranch in 1961. She became enamored with the theater, and with help from benefactors, she leased, then purchased, the hotel and theater complex.

However, in 1967 dancer and actress Marta Becket happened to visit due to an automobile repair. The town began to decline in the mid-20th century. From 1923 to 1925 the Pacific Coast Borax Company constructed buildings in the town, hiring architect Alexander Hamilton McCulloch to design a Spanish Colonial Revival whistle stop centered at the hotel, theater and office complex building, now known as the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel. It carried borax until 1928, when operations ceased. In 1914, the Death Valley Railroad started operating between Ryan, California and Death Valley Junction. The town first appears on the 1910 Furnace Creek Quandrangle USGS topographic map. The town was originally owned by Robert Tubb, who operated a saloon, store, and brothel. The town was created in 1907 when the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was constructed through the Amargosa Valley and a spur from their main line was built to the Lila C. In 2017 the tribe constructed a cannabis grow facility on the land. This includes areas for residences and the official federal sanction to use some government lands for traditional ceremonies. Government documents show an effort by the Timbisha Shoshone tribal government to acquire about in the area during 1999 to 2000. The closest straight-line distance to the Nevada state line is roughly five miles northeast. South on SR127 is the town of Shoshone, California. East/South East, 27 miles, is Pahrump, Nevada. The community's location, east-southeast of Furnace Creek, on the east side of Death Valley is south of Nevada's Amargosa Valley and near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. which runs the Opera House, Hotel, and cafe The town is owned by the non-profit Amargosa Opera House Inc.

There is no gas station, and only one restaurant, the Amargosa Cafe. The hotel is still operating next to the opera house, but beyond these maintained areas, the town is in a state of disrepair.

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The zip code is 92328, the elevation is, and the population is fewer than 4.ĭeath Valley Junction is home to the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel, where resident Marta Becket staged dance and mime shows from the late 1960s until her last show in February 2012. Death Valley Junction, also known as Amargosa, is a tiny Mojave Desert unincorporated community in Inyo County, California, at the intersection of SR 190 and SR 127, in the Amargosa Valley and just east of Death Valley National Park.

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