Museum of History in Granite

We are in Winterhaven, CA now and has gotten our glasses and dental work all completed in Mexico.

While here we visited the Museum  of History in Granite.  What an interesting place. It was created by a Frenchman who moved to America at age 12.  Served in the Marines and fought in the Korean War and upon retirement purchased 3,000 acres here in the desert.

He built a pyramid on the property and claims that if you stand in the middle of it you are standing on the center of the universe.

From there he built this little church up on the hill.He named this small village that he created Felicity after his wife's first name.

The next thing he did was put in walls of granite spiraling out from the walkway to the church.  There are 16 monuments engineered for 4,000 years highlighting the collective memory of humanity.  All of the lettering and pictures are done by hand.  All of the pictures and writing are composed by the man who created the whole thing.  He spends tons of time researching and deciding what goes on the walls. He is now 86 years old and according to our tour guide swims 1/2 mile every day and does 100 push ups a day.

Quite and amazing individual. He and his wife live on the property plus he had 3 buildings on the property each with 2 apartments that can be rented out.

This shows an overall view of the walls and church on the hill.  In the foreground is a cafe and museum.

 You can see the granite walls with history and the church up on the hill. Below is the pyramid that is the center of the universe.

View from the church.

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The is a part of the Eiffel tower

Pretty unusual individual. His name is Jacques-Andre Istel.

This property is located 8 miles west of Yuma.

Off to Apache Junction next to meet up with Jim and Tracy Tull to decide on a summer schedule.  We will be traveling together seeing as many national parks as we can fit in. We so look forward to this next part of our extended journey.