Indian Medicine Stone on the Pioneer Emigrant Trail

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $15.95

Stock #:771464
Type: Postcard
Era: Real Photo
City: Nevada City
State: California (CA)
County: Nevada
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
This boulder was known to the pioneers as the Indian Medicine Stone. On its top are hollows in which the Indians lay while taking sunbaths to cure their ills. One branch of the Emigrant Trail leading from Truckee Pass to the gold mines of Nevada County and to the valley of the Sacramento passed close beside this stone. Tablet placed by the Historic Landmarks Committee. Native Stone of the Golden West. Dedicated Oct. 198th, 1936.

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