Chalk Mountain

Photograph of the Chalk Mountain Site.

By the early 1950s, the original observatory at Fremont Pass was abandoned for a larger, more permanent site on nearby Chalk Mountain, in part to get away from "the severe smoke and dust sources of the Climax mine."

Photograph of the Chalk Mountain Site. July 6, 1949, BLDG # 1.
Photograph of the Chalk Mountain Site. July 6, 1949, Looking East.