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Location: Eastern Pershing County, Imlay
Directions: At the west end of FR 115 (Frontage Road), west of Imlay
(Access via Exit 145 from I-80, then 1.4 miles west on Frontage Rd.)
N40° 39' 07.9" W118° 09' 56.6"
Location: 2
Visibility: 1
Accessibility: 1
Marker type: St (L)
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Date Conquered: 2/25/08
Nearest Intersection: Scossa Rd.
Quick Description: A marker commemorating an unfortunate leg of the Applegate-Lassen Trail.
Signed: No -- Historically, this marker was never signed.
NOTES: The SHPO lists the directions for this marker as follows: "located along Interstate 80 at the Imlay Interchange". Let me tell you that you won't find this marker anywhere near the interchange. Allow me to clarify one very specific thing: When the directions are written for any marker "along Interstate 80", most of the markers are located off of Interstate frontage roads, usually old US 40. Here in this case, FR 115, signed as "Frontage Road" runs from Imlay to Mill City. Once you know this, finding #49 is a breeze. If you're coming from the west, bear a left onto Frontage Road in the direction of "Imlay." Follow this road well past Imlay until you run out of pavement! You can't miss this one for the life of you.
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Full Description:
Exact description as reads ...
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Jesse and Lindsay Applegate headed south from Willamette Valley, Oregon, June 29, 1846, seeking a less hazardous route to that region from the east. On July 21, they came to a large meadow on the Humboldt River, what is now the nearby Rye Patch Reservoir. Thus they established the Applegate Trail.
During the remainder of 1846 and for the next two years, Oregon emigrants successfully traveled this trail.
In 1848, Peter Lassen, hoping to bring emigrants to his ranch, acted as guide to a party of ten to 12 wagons bound for California. He followed a route from here to Goose Lake where he turned southward over terrain that was barely passable. The emigrants suffered great hardships; many lives and livestock were lost. It became known as the "Death Route."
The bleak view of Pershing County's vast deserts.
Just over those mountains is the Black Rock Desert.
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 What a view! The Humboldt Range brimming with the fresh snows of February.
Take some time and admire such scenes that span our Nevada deserts!
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