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Originally known as Allen's Camp after Gabriel Allen, who in the 1870s had a cabin and stock pasture nearby, the settlement was named Caliente when railroad construction reached this point in April 1875. The town became a railroad terminal for about 16 months while a force of up to three thousand men, most of them Chinese, labored on the heavy railroad construction on the mountain.
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