On busy weekends, visitors slept in tent, cabins, or under the stars. She used white linens and polished silverware to serve 3 meals per days (sometimes 100 people). Rooms cost $2.50 per night.ġ889 - Vade built a 2 1/2 story hotel at the Springs, with curtained glass windows, 16 small rooms and a parlor with horsehair furniture and a foot-pedal organ. "Billy" Lapham who opened a resort and called it "Bellevue" (French for Beautiful View). She got El Dorado County to make the trail from McKinney's over Burton's Pass to Rubicon into a one-way roadġ888 - Phipps sold his property to W. Phillips who owned Phillips Station on Johnson Pass road) bought the Rubicon Springs from the Hunsuckers and added Potter's Springs 1 mile away - beginning the RESORT. Sierra Phillips Clark, "Vade", (daughter of Joseph W. Water was sold as *Rubicon Water.*ġ884 - the Murphys bought the Meeks Bay land for $250 in gold eagles.ġ886 - Mrs. Health seekers from Nevada were now beginning to come to Rubicon Springs. They had a hard time supplying the demand. Stephen and Joseph Meek (Meeks and Co.) cut 25 tons of wild hay from the surrounding flatlands of Meeks Bay.ġ863 - McKinney established Hunter's Retreat (log cabin, tents, sapling pier & 3 fishing boats.)ġ880 - The Hunsuckers began bottling spring water and selling it at Georgetown and McKinney's. Burton and Company cut 75 tons of wild hay from meadowland flanking Burton's Creek and shipped it to South Tahoe. Phipps protected his 160 acre homestead from the saw.ġ861 - John McKinney and John Wren, both Georgetown pioneers, established a hay ranch on the summit of Burton's Pass (adjoining the El Dorado - Placer County lines.)ġ862 - John Mc Kinney moved to the lake at Burton Creek's outlet. There was a logging camp at Sugar Pine Point for awhile which explains the lack of sugar pines in the area. He was one of the first known permanent residents of Lake Tahoe. They added these to their own upon returning to Placerville.ġ859 - The first bridge to cross the river at this site was built of logs.ġ860 - General William Phipps staked out a 160 acre homestead on Sugar Pine Point. The Indians told them tales of how Lake Tahoe was formed. They were met by a band of 70 friendly Digger Indians (probably Washoe). His journals brought Tahoe to the attention of the western worldġ853 - Joseph Calhoun "cock-eyed" Johnson and an anonymous Placerville Herald correspondent broke trail from Hangtown up the Rubicon Gorges south to Lost Corner dropping down to Meeks Canyon to the creek, then bay. Army's first official exploratory expedition across the Sierra Nevada and into California. 1844 - John Fremont sighted Lake Tahoe while leading the U.S.
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