Another road which has historic interest is tho 

 Hennoss Pass road, on a branch of which is Nigger Tent, a 

 rendezvous of robbers and out-throats in the early days. 

 Prospectors and miners coning out from the mines with their 

 stakes were robbed and murdered at this place. The Henness 

 Pass Rood and tho Dinner Road branch in Sardine Valley, the 

 Henneos Pass Road going through by Webber Lake, and the 

 Dormer Road through tho present site of Truckee. On the 

 Irttor roecl in the vicinity of You Bet is a large tree which 

 joes by tho nemo of "Fremont's Flagpole", as it is suppob&d 

 to have beon used by him for that purpose. 



The first settlement in Nevada County was made by 

 a trader in 1849 at a place called Rose's Corral. In 1849 

 there came an influx of miners, and in this year a store was 

 established on a point of land over-looking Bear River on 



the old Truckoe Trail, the object bein<? to trade with emi<r*a?-,t8. 

 For a time this was tno only store between Bear Rivor and 'Jalt 

 La.e, c.t v/hich emigrants could obtain supplies. Here bacon 

 was sold for 52 per pound and shoe tacks at IGp apiece. 



In 1853 hydraulic mining was inaugurated near 

 Uevada City, and gave a renewed interest to placer mining. 

 The hydraulic was later employed by tho Central Pacific to 

 somo extent in cutting through the deep hills near Dutch Flat 

 at the time the railroad was constructed. 



Tho first notice of the silver discovery near 

 Virginia City in 1859 appeared in the Nevada City Journal of 

 July 1 of that yea^r. Large parties at once set out for that 

 place, probably one-third of the nale adults of Nevada County 

 goin;j to the mines. This discovery largely led to a rall- 

 ro&d movement in that direction, an! in 1860 a fesible route 

 WES discovered for a railroad on the divide between tho Bear 

 and American Rivero and construction started at once. 



The North Grove, the most northern grova of the 

 3ig Trees in existence, is found in tho Tahoe 1'orest on the 

 Forost Hill Divide near the Southern bounder? of Plr.c^r Cou 



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