SHM # 211 OLD GEIGER GRADE Traditional Cache
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SHM # 211 OLD GEIGER GRADE
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State marker on the way to Virginia City from Reno.
OLD GEIGER GRADE
'IN CANYON BELOW'
CONSTRUCTED BY DAVISON M. GEIGER AND JOHN H. TILTON IN 1862.THIS OLD TOLL ROAD WAS THE MOST DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN THE COMSTOCK LODE AND THE TRUCKEE MEADOWS UNTIL REPLACED BY THE PRESENT PAVED HIGHWAY IN 1936.
CONCORD STAGES,MUD WAGONS TEN-MULE FREIGHTERS CARRIED THOUSANDS OF PASSENGERS AND MILLIONS IN PRECIOUS CARGO ACROSS THIS SECTION OF THE VIRGINIA RANGE AND MANY ARE THE TALES OF UNPREDICTABLE WINDS, SNOWS, LANDSLIDES AND THE EVERLASTING DANGER OF LURKING HIGHWAY MEN WHICH COULD BE TOLD OF THIS PRECIPITOUS STRETCH OF ROAD.
DEAD MAN'S POINT AND ROBBERS ROOST, TWO OF THE MOST FAMOUS FEATURES OF THE ROAD,CAN BE SEEN FROM THE MARKER.
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