U.S. HIGHWAY 50 Milestone - South Lake Tahoe, CA
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N 38° 56.499 W 119° 58.629
11S E 241967 N 4314517
U.S. HIGHWAY 50 Milestone is located in South Lake Tahoe, CA.
Waymark Code: WMJB05
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2013
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On Highway 50, aka Lake Tahoe Blvd, you will find this historic milestone.
It is a small stone moonument bearing the inscription 59 miles, which is the distance to Placerville.
Nearby, at 1.8 feet south, there is a benchmark : JR0440.
"In the U.S. state of California, U.S. Route 50 (US 50) runs east from I-80 in West Sacramento to the Nevada state line in South Lake Tahoe.At the dawn of the automobile era, the state legislature authorized California's first state road on March 26, 1895, by creating the post of "Lake Tahoe Wagon Road Commissioner" to maintain the road from Newtown Road near Smith Flat (just east of Placerville) to Nevada.[17] The county deeded the 58-mile[18] (93 km) road to the state on February 28, 1896. Funding was only enough for minimal improvements, including a new stone bridge over the South Fork American River at Riverton in 1901. The Department of Engineering took over its maintenance in 1907, immediately completed a survey and posted granite milestones that marked the distance from Placerville, and in 1910 started sprinkling the dirt road with water in summer to keep down dust (as had been done in the 1860s). A 1915 law added the short distance from Smith Flat west to the east limits of Placerville to the state road." source : (
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