Description: PC0002 Image no. 224. First crossing of the Truckee River 133 miles from Sacramento
Photographer/artist: Alfred A. Hart
Date taken: 1860s
Photo location: Truckee River
Type: photo
Subject: Transcontinental Railroad Construction
County: Placer
Source: Stanford Collection
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Contributor: Stanford Libraries
Notes: Original image is 3.6 MB. HCS 1/14/2022. Image at Stanford site. See also Goldbaum and Huffman's 2012 book, Waiting for the Cars, p. 292. CP numbered the Truckee River crossings from west to east. Thus, the first crossing of the Truckee River was about 12 miles below Truckee. The authors note that: "Early CP reports consistently called this "Juniper Creek", but the accepted name commemorates Joseph Gray, of Gray's Station, who had a sawmill here. During construction days, this was the location of Camp 20. By 1874 this location was also called "Cuba." ... with a canyon and abundant water, ice ponds were soon developed here. Gray leased land for a pond in 1876 to People's Ice Company, and ... both the Mountain and Floriston ice companies also had ponds. The station name was changed to "Iceland" in 1897." See also Glenn Willumson, Iron Muse (UC Press Berkeley 2013), p. 147.
Rights: NOT FOR SALE; research only
Identifier: AAH0045
Serial Number: 2099
Donation: Alfred A. Hart Collection (AAH) collection (#34)
