"The pioneers in their journeys marked the roads and trails so that others recognizing them might safely follow"

This spot marks the location of the
California-Oregon Road
Main artery of travel of the pioneers blazed by them in the "fifties" and followed at this place by
The Pacific Highway
"Linking the past with the future"

Dedicated to the pioneers of northern California by McCloud Parlor No. 149, N.S.G.W. of Redding
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