Above: Early Downtown Fawnskin
Fawnskin’s development was unique in the mountains. At the time the town was constructed, the trend in mountain development was to buy tracts, subdivide and sell the lots. However in Fawnskin, the developers William Cline and Clinton Miller instead focused on creating a community.
The Cline-Miller development consisted of a resort complete [...]

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Above: Brochure image from the private collection of Eileen Downey.
Sometimes in historical research, you get a puzzle piece at a time. This was the case with this story, three unrelated events came together to form a picture of Fawnskin’s past.
The first event occurred last year when I was watching the television show, History [...]

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Above: Live Performance at the Theater of the Stars in Fawnskin, California
One of the most interesting and well-known landmarks of early Fawnskin was The Theater of the Stars. It was the dream of Fannie Charles Dillon, a local Fawnskin resident, who was also a world famous composer.
It was Dillon’s dream that Fawnskin develop [...]

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