8/4/2000
8/4/2000
8/4/2000
Landmark information
- Location:
Ebbetts Pass on Hwy 4 (PM 18.5), 18 mi SW of Markleeville - Plaque:
Other Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
8/4/2000 - Date Most Recently Visited:
8/4/2000 - GPS Coordinates:
N 38 32.654, W 119 48.722
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Historic Landmark
Ebbett's Pass
Named after Major John Ebbett and pointed out in 1853 to surveyor G.H. Goddard who referred to it as a "route of great promise - probably the best one for a transcontinental railway."
No emigrant train used this route but a stage road was completed here in 1864 to serve the mining region of Silver City.