Kramer Station, San Bernardino County, CA

Submitted by Don Stowell 23 Nov 2006

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Kramer Station is just west of the intersection of highways 58 and 395. Travel west on 
highway 58 just a few miles until you cross the railroad tracks then immediately turn right 
and follow the dirt road that parallels the tracks about a mile. You will pass a large corral. 
The desert is littered with rusty cans and broken bottles from bottle collectors digging in 
the area.

There are no remaining structures at Kramer Station and only one grave marker remains. It 
states a boy named Gallegos died at the age of 7 years and 5 months on the 6th day of August, 
1922. I checked the 1920 US census for Kramer Station and there was no family named Gallegos. 
There were darn few people left in Kramer by then. I checked with the Boron Museum and they 
were going to check for any records but I'm not holding my breath.
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Additional info from Robin Laska of the San Bernardino County Museum - February 15, 2012 
http://www.sbcounty.gov/museum/

An archaeological record came in that includes the cemetery at Kramer along the railroad and Hwy 58. 
It has at least 11 graves only one of which has a headstone. The one headstone reads “Santos de la Edad 
el dia 6 ato de 1922 fallecido carci de 7 anos 5 m. All the others are recognized by mounds with either 
rocks or portions of wooden crosses with no names or dates. Research by a historian says it appears 
that most of these are children that died during a flu epidemic in 1918 & possibly a smallpox/measles
epidemic in the early 1920’s. When more research comes in, I’ll let you know if there are more names 
and dates found.