Beale Wagon Road
1857 - 1882
From 1857-60, Lt. Edward F. Beale and crew of 100 men completed the first federal highway in the southwest from Fort Smith, Ark. to Los Angeles, Calif. at a cost of $200,000. The wagon road was used extensively by immigrants en route to California and livestock men with large herds of cattle and sheep until 1882.
Marker is on North Gemini Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
