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Black Butte and the Three Sisters

Shirley Harriman


Antelope Valley - Did you ever look toward the southeast and see the large butte and the three ‘stair-step‘ buttes to its south?


In 1988 a story was told about Black Butte and the Three Sisters. It was verbal; nothing in writing. Does anyone recall that folklore?

Black Butte was the site of a Super Fund Clean Up decades ago.


According to Wikipedia, The Three Sisters is a small mountain range found in the Mojave Desert, in Los Angeles County, California. It consists of three main hills of varying sizes, with the smallest to the southwest having a height above surrounding land of 150 feet (46 m), the second 180 feet (55 m), and the third and largest to the northeast having a height of 290 feet (88 m). The three main hills are the highly eroded remnants of what used to be the peaks of the northern San Gabriel Mountains, before recent sediment filled the area.


By Shirley Harriman

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