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  2. Truckee River - Wikipedia

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    The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada.The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles (195 km) long. [3] [6] The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin.

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Placer ...

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    U.S. 89 at mouth of Truckee River 39°10′00″N 120°08′33″W  /  39.166667°N 120.1425°W  / 39.166667; -120.1425  ( Outlet Gates and Gatekeeper Tahoe City

  4. California Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Auburn Emigrant Road (1852) from the Truckee trail to Auburn was established to bring emigrants to the new gold diggings at Auburn, California. Its thought to have extended from roughly present day Nevada City, California, roughly the end of the Truckee Trail, to Auburn. California State Route 49 from Auburn to Nevada City approximates this ...

  5. Truckee, California - Wikipedia

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    Truckee's existence began in 1863 as Gray's Station, named for Joseph Gray's Roadhouse on the trans-Sierra wagon road. [6] A blacksmith named Samuel S. Coburn was there almost from the beginning, and by 1866 the area was known as Coburn's Station. [6]

  6. Worcester County Wonders: History in every crevice of the ...

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    Auburn Historical Museum Data Research Coordinator Helen Poirier researches when 1872 Worcester Normal School graduate and School Committee member Mary D. Stone taught school in Auburn.

  7. Donner Memorial State Park - Wikipedia

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    The state park contains the Emigrant Trail Museum and the Pioneer Monument dedicated to the travelers of the Emigrant Trail. Donner Memorial State Park is located outside Truckee, California. It has 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of hiking trails, campgrounds, and 3 miles (4.8 km) of lake frontage on Donner Lake, east of Donner Pass. The 3,293-acre (1,333 ...

  8. Dutch Flat, California - Wikipedia

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    Lumber was a prominent industry in Dutch Flat's history. From 1861 to 1907, the Towle Brothers Lumber Company was among the largest in the state, owning over 20,000 acres (81 km 2 ) of land, with a private narrow-gauge railroad 38 miles (61 km) long, and employing a workforce of around 200 men, including fifty Chinese workers.

  9. List of Lake Tahoe inflow streams - Wikipedia

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    Upper Truckee River: flows from Red Lake Peak to South Lake Tahoe [8] 71,311 acre-feet per year (2.79 m 3 /s) Taylor Creek: dawgašašíwa heads in Fallen Leaf Lake and enters lake west of Camp Richardson [9] 30,910 acre-feet per year (1.21 m 3 /s) Tallac Creek debelelélek starts on Mount Tallac and flows north to Lake Tahoe [10] Cascade Creek