Editing Furnace Creek, California (section)

==History==
[[Francis Marion Smith]] and [[William Tell Coleman]]'s company, the [[Harmony Borax Works]]''',''' established Greenland Ranch in 1883, named after the green [[alfalfa]] fields which they planted there. They established a weather station at the ranch in 1891. Greenland Ranch was renamed Furnace Creek Ranch in 1933.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.furnacecreekresort.com/press-releases-1841_5175.html|title=Furnace Creek Resort|access-date=2012-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513163727/http://www.furnacecreekresort.com/press-releases-1841_5175.html|archive-date=2013-05-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Timbisha]] tribe currently live at the Death Valley Indian Community reservation here.<ref>[http://www.timbisha.org/history.htm Timbisha Shoshone Tribe History] (accessed 4/10/2010)</ref>  They provided many of the artisans and builders to construct the original [[Fred Harvey Company]] resort buildings, the [[Indian Village, California|Indian Village]], and Park Service structures. They compose the majority of residents of Furnace Creek's permanent population at the tribe's reservation.<ref>[http://www.timbisha.org/ The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, Death Valley] (accessed 4/10/2010)</ref> Furnace Creek was formerly the center of [[Death Valley]] mining and operations for the [[Pacific Coast Borax Company]] and the historic 20-Mule Teams hauling wagon trains of [[borax]] across the [[Mojave Desert]].<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/deva/historyculture/index.htm NPS- Death Valley History] (accessed 4/11/2010)</ref>