Bell Mountain is anunincorporated community in theVictor Valley region of theMojave Desert, withinSan Bernardino County, southernCalifornia.
It is north ofApple Valley, east ofInterstate 15, and 8 miles (13 km) northeast ofVictorville.[1] The town lies at 3,082 feet above sea level[citation needed] on Dale Evans Parkway.
A post office was established in the community in 1953 but it was discontinued three years later.[1]
The rural community of Bell Mountain was founded in 1904 when a group of black homesteaders from Los Angeles began settling on government land aroundVictorville, California. Most of the Bell Mountain homesteaders were southerners who had migrated west in stages during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, eventually arriving in California and at Bell Mountain. Their goal was to become landowners and to create a prosperous, “all-black” agricultural community in the desert outskirts of Los Angeles. These homesteaders included Nolie andLela Murray, notable entrepreneurs from the Los Angeles black community who would go on to establishMurray's Dude Ranch at Bell Mountain in the 1930s.[2]
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