The San Bernardino Sun News posted a great article about Trona on October 24, 2015. I just had to link to it here for those Trona fans that don’t do Facebook.
“Anywhere else is not Trona,” Sandy Sprouse said. “It’s unique in every sense of the word.” The tiny unincorporated community is on Death Valley’s southeastern border, about 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles and an hour and a half north of the tiny High Desert community of Adelanto. Souvenirs sold at the Searles Valley Historical Society museum in Trona display a road sign —created to promote a local sign company — that reads “End of the World, 10 miles; Trona, 15 miles.” [ …. more ]
Nice article – but he left out 1970 in his timeline!