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Keeler, California
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Keeler was a silver-shipping town on Owens Lake, founded as Hawley and later renamed for a mill owner, and its lake steamer and zinc tramway once served the Cerro Gordo mines. The Owens Valley water diversion to Los Angeles dried the lake by 1926, the railroad closed in 1960, and about seventy people remain among its old buildings and a California Historical Landmark smelter furnace.
On Highway 136 near the Death Valley entrance; wind and alkali dust are common.
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