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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BP_the-luse-ditch-flume_Placerville-CA.html
The Luse Ditch Flume. (1900-1924) On this site stood the Luse Ditch Flume carrying water from Placerville to the ranching and mining operations in the eastern Gold Hill area. The ditch and flume system was managed by George and John Luse from 1920…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BI_strawberry-valley-house_Twin-Bridges-CA.html
This popular resort and stopping place for stages and teams of the Comstock, established by Swift and Watson in 1856, became a remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express on April 4, 1860. Here on that date division superintendent Bolivar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BE_yanks-added-station_South-Lake-Tahoe-CA.html
(back) The Hawley Grade from April 3, 1860 to November 17, 1860 was used by the Pony Express. On November 18, 1860 the new toll road down Johnson Pass (Echo Summit), today's Old Meyers Grade, was opened to horse traffic and was now used by the Pon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B7_john-snowshoe-thompson_South-Lake-Tahoe-CA.html
Send me men to match my mountains. These are words a great poet said speaking for the brave young nation that needed strong and brave men's aid. In memory ofJohn (Snowshoe) Thompsonwho, for twenty successive winters, 1856-1876, carried the mail…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AY_yanks-station_South-Lake-Tahoe-CA.html
This was the site of the most eastern remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express in California. Established as a trading post in 1851 by Martin Smith, it became a popular hostelry and stage-stop operated by Ephraim "Yank" Clement on the …
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