NoeHill Travels in California
Historic Sites and Points of Interest in Nevada County
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11 December 2013
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Nevada City Emigrant Trail
Marker NC-9
Leaving Washington Ridge
Conservation Road
Marker NC-9
Leaving Washington Ridge
Conservation Road
The trail marker reads:
Nevada City Road - Leaving Washington Ridge"We dared not lets them browse among the trees lest, by feeding on the poison oak, it might prove...fatal to them.... We therefore sought a place of greater safety,...through a forest of pine and cedar."
John Steele, Sep 22, 1850