Emigrant Gap Hotel/Allen Hotel/Woodmen Lodge/Bright Lodge
My husband and I recently purchased the Emigrant Gap Hotel – Annex as our family lodge. Since we purchased the property from the bank we are still trying to piece it's history together. We have been in contact with a friend of Leona Bright (an owner from the 60's we believe) and have a bit of the history.
What we are trying to find out is – was our site (not our annex of course since it was built in the early 1900's) on the Dutch Flat/Donner Lake Wagon Road? And - if so, should we be able to locate some kind of marker? Emigrant Gap has been changed so many times - the railroad, highway 40, highway 80 – there is little left here.
If you can help us find out if we were on the wagon road and how to look for signs of it - that would be great. Also – we have only been able to locate a very few historic photos of our town. If you can refer us to someplace to look for more – that would be great. ...
—Carol Guida
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 9:50 PM
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See the third map image of this 1866 map.
Thanks! I looked at that earlier tonight and assumed we were close.
From: wem@onetel.com
For photos, I'd suggest the California Room at the State Library in Sacramento, and the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.
—John Snyder, White Ensign Models
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Mr Snyder's suggestion to look for photo's in the online photo catalog of the California State Library is very good information. The second image listed under Emigrant Gap is a shot of the hotel in question.
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[Unfortunately the California State Library is using links that are only valid during the session (a poor website design), so we can't provide a link.]
Go to
www.library.ca.gov/calhist/
click on "Pictorial resources"
click on "Picture Catalog"
search for "Emigrant Gap"
click on "Emigrant Gap # 333 [graphic]."
click on the small picture
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