Delonegha Hot Springs
spring in Kern County, California, United States of America
Delonegha Hot Springs are located in Kern County, California, United States, northeast of the city of Bakersfield and southwest of Lake Isabella. Delonegha is one of several hot springs adjacent to the Kern River and State Route 178. The springs lie within the boundaries of Sequoia National Forest, "100 yd (91 m) down a steep dirt trail" from the highway. Except for a brief period in the first years of the 20th century when there was a small resort at the site, the Delonegha springs have remained largely undeveloped.
History
The geothermally heated groundwater at Delonegha (also spelled Delonagha) was known to the indigenous people of the area, who reportedly used them "for medicinal purposes". The springs take their name from the Dahlonegah Mining District where gold was found in 1866. Dahlonegah was in turn named after Dahlonega, Georgia, itself the site of an early 19th-century gold rush. In the late 1860s, the first settlers of the springs district built a road to the top of Greenhorn Mountain "to connect with Eugene and Burke Grades" leading to Poso Flats and then into Bakersfield. A stage ran this road twice a week.
Homesteader William Crawford took possession of the springs and surrounding land in 1886, and according to his daughter, "Hot water poured out of the middle of big rocks and splashed into the river.
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