Directly south of the Oasis Palms train station is the oasis “discovered” by Capt Cameron Smith in 1840. This ancient oasis was well-known to the local indigenous people for a millennia before Smith arrived. Smith was led to the oasis by a local guide who was a strikingly beautiful California Native American from the Hutto-pah Mojave tribe. This guide Malika, would later become his wife and would co-found the town of Oasis Palms with Smith.
This oasis provided 10,000-year-old virgin water to the town that came directly from the Fenner Aquafir located deep in the ground below Oasis Palms until the spring mysteriously ran dry in the 1980s.
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