Below is a combination of four different records of the old road along with the current visible trail.
Click the arrows at the bottom of the white area to cycle through the five maps--one at a time.
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"The road has no legal description...nobody knows where it goes."...Lawbreaking Landowner Frank Cadjew "No record exists of the actual alignment of the old state road."...County Supervisor Ted Owens, July 2005 "The old state road is impossible to locate"...County Supervisor John Spencer, Oct 2005 "An official state survey has never been found"...Lee Fitzpatrick of Truckee Trails Foundation, June 2005 "I doubt if you could find what others, including the County cannot find, that being a legal survey showing the easement of the Cadjew property." ...Gordon Richards of the Truckee Donner Historical Society, Nov 2005... read more of Richards' surprising emails to our group here! Gee, why so negative guys? Below is page 1 along with a typical page from the surveyor's field book for the 1915 State Department of Engineering Survey of the old road, which was easily found in Sacramento in Nov 2005.
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Below is page 48, which shows the west end of Donner Lake, known for a few years after 1909 as "Donner City." The 2-story hotel & bar was on the site of today's Donner Lake Realty. Tamrak Resort (that's how it was spelled) was on today's beach, when Tamarack Road extended out to the lake. Click photo for full screen.
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This road was the Lincoln Highway from the beginning of the LH system in 1914 until 1927, and this road was the Victory Highway from the beginning of the VH system in 1922 until 1927. In 1927, the completion of the new road to replace this old road coincided with the new numbering system for the nation's highway system. This section of the new road had the new name US Highway 40. The names Lincoln and Victory Highways were used on the new road for a year or so but then faded out of use.