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The Henness Pass Road was a major immigrant trail from the Truckee Meadows to the California gold fields. In the 1850s it was improved and became a toll road. In 1860 Felix O'Neil built a bridge over the Truckee River, east of this place and near the existing bridge. His stage stop was known as O'Neil's Station. For a time, Verdi was called O'Neil's Crossing.

After the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, the route served as the primary supply road for the mines. It continued to be a major transportation route through the Sierra Nevada Mountains until the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.

The Henness Pass Road was included in the Lincoln Highway, the country's first transcontinental highway system. It continued to carry wagon and later automobile traffic between Truckee and Verdi until the completion of the last portion of the Victory Highway (later Highway 40) through the Truckee River Canyon in 1925.
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Author Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA
Camera location39° 31′ 29.17″ N, 120° 00′ 07.77″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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