El Dorado County Points of Interest
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Back of Marker
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19 October 2022
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Forest Service Road 11N99
This T-marker has a plate on each side of the horizontal rail. The front plate reads:
Johnson Cutoff - Silver Creek Ranch
"One of the worst roads I ever saw no feed till we arrived at Silver Creek Ranch...Any one that never travelled such a road would think it impossible for a wagon to go over"
- William Wirt Gilbert, Sep 30, 1853
The back plate reads:
Emigrant Trail Junction
At this historic Emigrant Trail junction, the earlier 1850 Daggett Pass-Georgetown Pack Trail continued northwest to Georgetown. The 1852 Johnson Cutoff turned west along Peavine Ridge Road to Placerville.