Two hundred trailer spaces and several boarding houses and dormitories provided living space for Kaiser's itinerant workforce. It had wide, landscaped streets lined with over four hundred homes, some with as many as four bedrooms. As the mine expanded, Eagle Mountain grew to a peak population of 4000.
Eagle Mountain is accessible by Kaiser Road ( Riverside County Route R2) from California State Route 177, twelve miles (19 km) north of Desert Center, midway between Indio and the California/Arizona state line along Interstate 10.įounded in 1948 by Kaiser Steel Corporation, Eagle Mountain is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine. The town's fully integrated medical care system, similar to other Kaiser operations in California, was the genesis of the modern-day Kaiser Permanente health maintenance organization. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National Park. Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J.
