NoeHill Travels in California
El Dorado County Points of Interest
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17 October 2022
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Carson Trail Marker 66: Wagon Road to Placerville
Holm Road
Holm Road
The plaque reads:
Carson Trail - Wagon Road to Placerville
"We decided to head for Placerville and cast out lot digging gold, and we expect to pass into this place to night....We passed...a good many cradling out gold, and we are all very enthusiastic to get started" - Albert G. Paschal, Aug 18, 1850
Trails West, Inc., based in Reno, installed sixty-nine markers on the (Kit) Carson Trail which runs from the Forty Mile Desert in Nevada to Placerville in California. The markers were fabricated from two pieces of steel railroad rails welded into a T shape.