#ch.10 crossroads pt 1

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HOTD Masterlist

General Masterlist

~ Daughter of Steel and Bronze (Targaryen!OC x Harwin Strong)

This is the story of Princess Daena Targaryen - daughter of the Rogue Prince Daemon Targaryen and Lady Rhea Royce. What role will she play in the impending doom of House Targaryen?

Follow along as she learns to navigate the complex life of the Red Keep, uncovers treacherous plots, falls victim to dangerous lies, and falls in love with the heir of Harrenhal.

Will she survive the Game of Thrones or perish as so many others did?

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Character profile

Daena x Harwin

Prologue

Ch 1 - To King's Landing

Ch 2 - Claiming your birthright

Ch 3 - Dragonstone

Ch 4 - Blood of the Dragon

Ch 5 - Victory

Ch 6 - Gone with the Wind

Ch 7 - Loss of Innocence

Ch 8 - Crossroads

Ch 9 - Child no more

Ch 10 - Signs and Portents

Ch 11 - The comforts of home

Ch 12 - Hidden secrets

Ch 13 - Daughter's anguish

Ch 14 - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Ch 15 - To Mend a Broken Heart

Ch 16 - Succession

To be continued...

Depictions of Daena

Pt 1/ Pt 2 / Pt 3

Pt 4 / Pt 5 / Pt 6

Pt 7 / Pt 8 / Pt 9

Pt 10 / Pt 11

Secondary characters

Lady Amanda Royce

Ladies Joy and Hanna Strong

Lady Rowena Redfort

Rowena's reaction to Rhea's death

Daena's outfits

Pt 1

Pt 2

Headcanons

Daena's style

How Vermithor bonded to Daena

Daena's style during mourning

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Various Places of Interest: California pt 2

1. Garlock/The Ghost Town of Garlock

Garlock jail in the back. Allegedly Charles Manson inscribed his initials in there. An unincorporated town in Kern County, CA, Garlock was also known as El Paso City, Eugeneville, and Cow Wells. Garlock is close to the Burro Schmidt tunnel as listed in the previous blog post. The story goes that a Eugene Garlock hauled an eight stamp mill (a mill for essentially grinding ore) from the town of Tehachapi. This was due to there being a water supply and its central location for the various mining districts in the area (there are over 14,000 mines surrounding Garlock!). Apparently one of the places they supplied water to was Randsburg around 1896.

Garlock’s mill was flooded with ore, and other mills appeared in the area in towns such as Visalia, Kelly, Smith, and more.  It’s success mostly came from the Yellow Aster Mine, and processing cyanide. At its height, Garlock had two bars, two hotels, a stage depot, laundry, dentist’s office, bakery, several blacksmiths, and a school...and more!  As business went up, a man named John Kelly was hired, a man known for disliking carrying a gun on him, and was able to talk men into surrendering without one. There was a “crossroads” of tents, frames, and adobe buildings. There were as many as 300-700 hundred people that lived in the town.

Apparently, the town officially died the day the constable’s wife (Ida Kelly) became postmistress. This was on April 10th, 1896. I am not sure why this is, but if this woman’s name is still remembered today, I can only guess the people really hated her. But this is not the only reason Garlock went on a downhill. Nearby, Barstow and Yellow Aster Mine built larger mills and railway, which I’m sure attracted more people. But overall, once Eugene Garlock himself died in 1907, the town was completely abandoned.

Interestingly, the post office operated from 1896-1904, and then again from 1923-1926.

If you go to Garlock today, there is very little left standing. Many of the buildings are dilapidated and fallen to the ground, which honestly isn’t surprising considering they are over 100 years old. What is interesting is that, back in 1898, there was a fire in the nearby town of Randsburg. The fire destroyed many of the buildings in their business district, so many of the buildings in Garlock were moved to Randsburg. I can see why many people left Garlock, since in a way, their town was in a whole other place.

Two last things that I found really interesting was that the old jail in Garlock was apparently visited by Ch

arles Manson at some point, where he carved his name in to the wall. And post heyday Garlock’s school was turned into a brothel during the 1920’s. There is a really good blog post by secretmines.com that I’ll link below. It has really interesting information about the town.

Today, Garlock seems to be privately owned. From pictures I’ve seen, there are many parts fenced off, which is probably for the best, since people love to vandalise things.

It is landmark number 671 in California’s Historical Landmarks. 2. Saltdale/Koehn Dry Lake

The salt from the lake has dilapidated any buildings that were left Another unincorporated town in Kern County, Saltdale (a moist play geographically) was founded for the basis of salt harvesting from the Koehn Dry Lake beside it, in 1914; though the Diamond Salt Company started development between 1911-12. Supposedly, back in the day desert Natives would store the salt from the dry lake. There were various salt companies that worked in the area, from Diamond to Consolidated Salt, to Fremont Salt (1919-1927), and Long Beach Salt (1928, who still works there today. In its heyday, the town boomed and there were tons upon tons of salt shipped to the local areas. Saltdale had a key location in being so close to Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley. Under the Consolidated Salt Company, business did especially well, though there was a problem with getting salt transported with South Pacific, shipments would be delayed five months at a time. By 1924, business started to go into a slump, and with a water shortage, the salt output went from a previous 240 tons a week in 1914, to 6 tons a day (or 48 tons a week). Very interestingly, the school from the aforementioned Garlock was shipped to Saltdale, though it turned out to be a pretty bad idea. The building itself was “little more than a shack”, the school had the highest rate of absences in the whole county.

In 1925, Saltdale’s output was the lowest so far, at 6900 tons that year. In 1927, the output went back up to 17,000 tons. That same year, the Long Beach Salt Company took over. By the time they did, there was only a school, post office, company store, and service station in the area. Things started to look up. The school was repaired, repainted, and set record attendance rates.

There were still problems though with the area. Saltdale itself was pretty isolated, the nearest amenities such as a jail was still 16 miles away (which was really far back then before modern cars) in Randsburg. The nearest hospital was in Red Mountain. Many women gave birth at home, and, “during the same week that a boy was born to one family, in December, 1931, the infant daughter of another family died.”

There was proposal in 1931 to merge the school disctricts of Saltdale and Cantil, though it wouldn’t happen for another 20 years. Despite the 30’s being the decade of depression, the company was prosperous. The 40’s was a decade that essentially shut everything down. From gypsum being found in the salt, limiting their business to lack of rain, by 1949, there were only three workers left. The post office closed in 1950, and school district was done in 1951. The mill that was there remained and was mechanized. The mill still stood in May of 1980, but a year a half later it was gone.

There were various claims for the area, but essentially were all ruled null and void in 1975 by the IBLA. By this time, there were four workers, and none lived in Saltdale.

The dry lake itself is at the base of the El Paso Mountains near the Last Chance Canyon. Years later, the area of the lake was used for filming Star Wars, but I don’t know how true that is.

Pictures of the Salt Lake can be found on the digital desert website, which I’ll link here: http://digital-desert.com/a/trona/sd01.html

  For a very thorough history, please read the post on this site: https://vredenburgh.org/mining_history/pages/saltdale.html

  Atlas Obscura page with more pictures: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/saltdale [SOURCES] http://www.secretmines.com/p/garlock-ghost-town.html https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/garlock.html http://digital-desert.com/garlock/ https://thediggings.com/places/ca029-99937749 http://mojavedesert.net/desert-fever/saltdale.html http://clui.org/section/koehn-lake