It was once a popular vacation destination spot before ever-increasing salinity and pollution of the Salton Sea shut the tourist trade down.

The North Shore Beach and Yacht Club, an Albert Frey design, opened in 1962 and was in active use until 1984; rising water levels destroyed the jetty in 1981, thereby making it impossible for boats to dock there.

The lobby was once littered with hotel receipts from the neighboring North Shore Motel (razed in 2008) dating back to the club's last days.

The yacht club has been restored under a $3.35 million grant and since 2011 is open to the public as a Community Center and historical landmark.

The Cahuillas would use the nearby Dos Palmas Spring as a water stop which was also the eastern edge of their empire.

Legend of Juan de Iturbe's Lost Pearl Ship in the Desert is a local legend that after the 1862 Great flood locals reported seeing an ancient Spanish galleon that had beached during a voyage at New Spain's northernmost frontier of water the ancient Lake Cahuilla in 1615.

If he had kept following the trail, he would've entered the Coachella Valley (through North Shore) and reached his destination the San Gabriel Mission near Los Angeles.

Spanish missionaries from the San Gabriel Mission would make the long journey to collect salt from brine pools near the Salton sink known as the evaporating ancient Lake Cahuilla in 1815.

[3] Alta California swears loyalty to the New Mexican Empire in April 1822 led by Emperor Agustín de Iturbide in Mexico City.

Fort Romualdo Pacheco, the only Mexican settlement in the Colorado Desert located in Imperial Valley, was completed in 1825.

Southern Pacific constructed a railroad connecting Yuma to Los Angeles that traversed near the town site.

From 1905 to February 1907, the Colorado River overflowed into the Salton Sink which had an ancient history of previous iterations of lakes.

The rebuilt station of Mortmere eventually was the foundation stone for the modern town of North Shore.

In 1926, Gus Eilers (with the help of promoter John Goldthwaite) acquired land from the Southern Pacific Railroad near the Mortmere train station.

Eilers moved two Olympic cottages from Los Angeles in 1932, and they served as the first guest houses in Date Palm Beach.

Eilers' wife and children joined him in 1934 to run the business and Date Palm Beach did well through World War II, when soldiers visited from nearby bases.

For several years, North Shore was a popular place for celebrities like the Beach Boys and Jerry Lewis.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 11.2 square miles (28.9 km2), all of it land.