Emigrant Gap Historical Marker

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway, Nevada City, California

Description

Officially named as Emigrant Gap in the 1860s, the monument itself is located where covered wagons were thought to have been lowered over the cliff to the floor of Bear Valley by rope and tackle, held by iron spikes driven into the rock.

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Location

Lat: 39.298995 Lng: -120.672817