La Mesa, Santa Rosa Island
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La Mesa, Santa Rosa Island, survey station established in 1860 by William E. Greenwell and reset by Stehman Forney in 1872. It was located:
- “on the top of the eastern and the higher of the two isolated mesas about midway of the island east and west, and 1 mile from the north shore of the island, between Cañada Soledad and Cañada Verde. On the slope of the hill, about 1500 meters south of the station is a large corral. West of this corral and close by in Cañada Soledad stands an old house. This is the only house and corral on the west end of the island.”
The station was recovered in 1934 by Robert W. Knox and marked with a standard disk stamped LA MESA 1872-1934. This triangulation station appears on the Santa Rosa Island North topographic map. [UTM 10: North 3,765,264 East 764,887].
