Lone Pine

The town of Lone Pine is known as the gateway to Mt. Whitney, and was the epicenter of the strongest earthquake in California's recorded history. On March 26, 1872 a tremor registering 7.4 on the Richter scale shook the town, killing twenty-seven people as the eastern side of the Owens Valley dropped twenty feet. There is a graveyard for the victims of quake just north of town.