Overland Emigrant Trails

This boulder marks the

Overland Emigrant Trails

through Fremont to

Oregon, California, Utah

and Colorado

Erected Setp. 23, 1912

Marker is at the intersection of Military Avenue and D Street, on the left when traveling east on Military Avenue.

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Nobles' Emigrant Trail

Pioneered by William Nobles, this trail linked the Applegate Trail in Nevada to the Northern Sacramento Valley. During the 1850s and 60s, several thousand emigrants used this trail in their migration from the eastern United States.

Marker is on Lassen Peak ...

Nobles Emigrant Trail

In 1852, William H. Nobles located an easier and more direct route to California for gold-seekers and pioneers heading west. Nobles Trail contributed importantly to the development of Northern California and led to additional transportation routes. Extensive use of Nobles ...

Emigrant Trail

1850

Gold discovered

Rabbit Creek – 1850

Renamed

La Porte – 1857

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and School Street on Main Street.

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Pioneer Emigrant Trail

This boulder was known to the pioneers as the Indian Medicine Stone. On its top are hollows in which the Indians lay while taking sun baths to cure their ills. One branch of the Emigrant Trail leading from Truckee Pass ...

Emigrant Trail Terminus

Sonora was the goal of many emigrants traveling the various overland and sea routes.

The 1852 Clark-Skidmore Party of emigrants from Elizabethtown, Ohio and Lawrenceburg, Indiana struggled to force a wagon train up the Walker River and over the 10,000 ft. ...

Emigrant Trail to Nevada City

In 1850, the year after the fabulous gold strike on Deer Creek in Nevada City, the Overland Emigrant Trail branched off the original Bear River route at Bear Valley, climbed Washington Ridge and passed this point on its way to ...

Lassen Emigrant Trail

Through this draw passed many covered wagons and gold seekers enroute to California over the Lassen Trail during 1848-1851. Approaching this location from the north, the trail passed what is now Bogard Ranger Station. Proceeding southward to Big Springs and ...

Mormon-Carson Pass Emigrant Trail

Mormon-Carson Pass Emigrant Trail, the heavily-travelled gateway to California gold fields, was blazed in 1848 by discharged members of the Mormon battalion traveling east to join their families.

Five hundred Mormon volunteers, recruited in Iowa, served one year in the Army ...

Overland Emigrant Trail

Approximately 1 ¼ miles east of this site is the historic Johnson’s Crossing. This was the first settlement reached west of the Sierra and the last stop on the Overland Emigrant Trail. Used as a camping spot for the pioneers, ...