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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM212A_the-yellow-pine-mining-company-railroad_Jean-NV.html
Built in 1911, The Yellow Pine Mining Company Railroad was a twelve and a half mile long narrow gauge railroad connecting the town of Goodsprings with the Union Pacific Railroad here in Jean. The railroad was built using materials from the defunct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YJP_the-arrowhead-trail-highway_Jean-NV.html
The first automobile road to connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas was the Arrowhead Trail Highway. Planned, promoted and built beginning in the second decade of the twentieth century, this was one of the named interstate highways of the Good Roads mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQDV_goods-spring_Jean-NV.html
This small spring, first used by Anasazi and Paiute people, also sustained the caravan that pioneered a pack route now known as the Old Spanish Trail. En route to Los Angeles from Santa Fe, trader Antonio Armijo, 60 men and 100 mules camped here o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQDR_old-elko-fire-bell_Jean-NV.html
According to the early history of Elko, Nevada, this curfew and fire bell played a vital role for local citizenry. It often rang to signal disastrous fires, deaths of celebrities, and celebrations.
Harbinger of both good tidings and bad, the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQDP_jean-nevada_Jean-NV.html
Founded in 1904 as Goodsprings Junction, a station on the San Pedro, Los Angles, and Salt Lake Railroad, Jean received its current name in 1905 when the post office was opened. It was named in honor of Jean Fayle, the wife of George Fayle who had …