Desert Tower

Historical marker location:

1 In-Ko-Pah Park Road, Jacumba, California

( Marker can be reached from In-Ko-Pah Park Road west of Interstate 8.)

Marker installed: 1984

The first female mayor in the U.S. was elected in California in 1887. Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, but she was born in California and later moved to Kansas with her husband.