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Volume 075-1 - January 2021 (8 pages)
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NCHS Bulletin January 2021
¢ Bridge No. 17-23, Yuba Pass overhead, $88,000.
¢ 21.0 miles, grade and surface portion being
4-lane, from junction of Route 15 to junction of
Route 38, $1,180,000.
¢ 17.4 miles, grade, surface and bridge, form
junction of Route 37 to northern county
boundary, $2,410,000.
¢ 10.0 miles, grade, surface and bridge from
Truckee to northern county boundary,
$644,000.
¢ 7.3 miles, grade and surface from Bear River to
1.5 miles south of Rattlesnake Creek, $764,300.
On February 7, 1947 The Union reported that
a contract had been given for a new stretch of
Highway 49. “Word has been received by Forest
Supervisor Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest that
the low bid for construction of another section
of Highway 49 was submitted by Westbrook and
Pope Construction Company of Sacramento. This
contract will cover the 2.6-mile portion between
North San Juan and the Middle Fork of the Yuba
River, which joins the section from Yuba River to
Wilson’s Cabin, completed last summer and the
section between Wilson’s Cabin and Gold Pan
Lodge now nearing completion.
The contract is to be awarded by the Washington
office of the Public Roads Administration and
will be financed from the forest highway funds.
This leaves only 2.8 miles of Highway 49 to be
completed between North San Juan and the Sierra
County line. This is also programmed for 1947.
Some 50 million board feet of lumber and logs as
well as heavy recreation traffic move over highway
49 annually. Ellis says that the contracts are being
let at this time and detours are planned so that
traffic will suffer the least from interruptions”.’
In order for this project to get underway there was at
least one structure that was an obstacle to the highway
project and land that would need to be secured in
North San Juan by the State of California through the
Department of Public Works, Division of Highways.
The property belonged to long-time local residents
William Clark and Amelia Augusta Cunningham.
Portions of Lots 2, 3 and 4 in Block 2 and a Portion
of Lot 1 and 2 in Block 1 in the Townsite of North
San Juan were acquired on July 12, 1947 by the
Division of Highways. It is not known if William’s
position as foreman with the Division of Highways
was a Significant factor, just a coincidence, or that was
where the highway needed to be relocated to in order
to straighten out the road and that would place it on
Cunningham land.
The Cunningham Family of North San Juan
By Maria E. Brower
Both William Cunningham and his wife, Amelia,
descended from California pioneers and had longtime family businesses in Nevada, Yuba and Sierra
Counties. William’s parents were Rasmus Manford
Cunningham and Mary J. Kern/Kem* Cunningham.
Rasmus was born in Illinois on November 28, 1846°
vital events in the early years didn’t survive except
for what was printed in the early newspapers. Most of
that information was brief and sketchy at best.'* There
were four men by the name of Cunningham known to
be in Nevada County at that time who could have been
Rasmus’s father. Three have connections to Illinois
and came across the plains to California with his family where Rasmus was born.
in a covered wagon, arriving in Nevada City when “but
a small boy.” Rasmus’s parents’ names have not been
identified after extensive research possibly because
they both died shortly after arriving in California when
Rasmus was still young.
Since early records were destroyed by several fires
in Nevada City, the county seat, the information for
Albert Cunningham was killed by being thrown
from a horse that stumbled due to repair work going
on in the street in 1856. His neck was broken in
the accident and he lived only about an hour in an
insensible state. He was originally from Illinois.
2. Aman named Clark Cunningham had a business
on Broad St. known as the Illinois House with a