Essex, San Bernardino County, California
Essex is a small unincorporated town in San Bernardino County, California. Essex lies on Old National Trails Highway – part of the old Route 66 – just south of Interstate 40 in the Mojave Desert.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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