More and more Stanford families came to Fallen Leaf Lake each summer. Guests arrived at Fallen Leaf Lodge just in time for dinner. An overnight boat from San Francisco brought visitors to Sacramento, and from there the Pierce Arrow stage drove over the mountains with a stop in Placerville for lunch. Stanford’s first president, David Starr Jordan, traveled to Fallen Leaf by this route.Īfter Highway 50 was completed and cars became more common, the trip was considerably shortened. People stayed for at least two weeks, often as long as six, because it took so long to arrive.
It often took two or three trips on the stage and barge to get a family in. People and luggage were then loaded on board and taken to the other end of the lake. Horse-drawn stages met and drove guests to the north end of Fallen Leaf where a barge waited. From Tahoe City, the steamer Tahoe ferried guests across Lake Tahoe to Lucky Baldwin’s Hotel Tallac (where Kiva Beach is today). to a narrow gauge train bound for Tahoe City. Vacationers took the train from San Francisco to Truckee, then transferred at 4:00 a.m. In the late teens and early twenties, it was very difficult to travel from San Francisco to Fallen Leaf Lake. These days we hear how Highway 50 is harrowing, being only two lanes, and that Fallen Leaf Lake Road is not wide enough for two cars. It was another 25 years before hikers rediscovered the backwoods and Glen Alpine Springs again, but it was no longer open to the public.The journey from the Bay Area to Fallen Leaf Lake was quite an adventure back then. The gambling casinos and the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics made the biggest change: The lake became a year round destination, the off-lake resorts became camp grounds or condos and Glen Alpine Springs closed down. People had their own cars, preferring weekend trips at the big lake and not in the back woods. After the depression and World War Two, resort life changed drastically in the Lake Tahoe area. When the Pierce Arrow Stagecoach came to the resort just before World War One, the culture was already changing - guests trips became shorter and more frequent. Guests slept in tent cabins bought as surplus from the Civil and Spanish-American Wars, ate three meals a day on linen tablecloths with silver and china, and stayed weeks and months at a time. Within 25 years Gilmore's resort in a mountain canyon saw guests come by train, cross Lake Bigler on a steamboat, then picked up by horse-drawn stagecoach to follow the road that was originally the deer path. It starts with the Gilmore brothers emigrating to the California gold rush then Nathan Gilmore following a deer path to discover a lake and a spring 10 years later. Glen Alpine Springs is a perfect example of how transportation changed summer recreation over 250 years. Parsons Memorial Lodge, Yosemite National Park, CA.Sunbonnet House, Professorville Historic District, Santa Clara, CA, built 1899.Outdoor Art Club, Marin, CA, built 1904.Tahoe Meadows, El Dorado, CA, built 1925.Hearst Gymnasium, Alameda, CA, built 1921.There are 6 Maybeck National Register of Historical Places: Swedenborgian Church, San Francisco, CA, built 1894.First Church of Christ Scientist, Alameda, CA, built 1910.Principia College, Jersey, IL, built 1930-38.There are 3 Maybeck National Historical Landmarks: Maybeck was married over 60 years and worked into his 95th year until he died in 1857. He receibed the Gold Medal from the American Institure of Architecture in 1951.
He had careers as a furniture designer, cabinet salesman, teacher, arhitect and bohemian. He lived in New York, France, Connecticut, Kansas and California. Amanda Gray Gilmore names the area (Clan) Glen Apine Springs after Sir Walter Scott's 1810 long poem, "Lady of the Lake." Explored by noted geologists and conservationists, the Glen Alpine Springs area was declared "the finest example of volcanic and glacial activity in the Tahoe area."īernard Maybeck was born in New York, 1862, and educated in design and architecture at the Ecole des Beaus-Arts in France. By 1871 he filed a deed for 10,000 acres extending from Fallen Leaf to Mt Tallac in Devil's Valley Wilderness. After the 1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Virginia City, NV, Nathan Gilmore explored Lake Tahoe, discovered Fallen Leaf Lake and a spring in a canyon. These western pioneers panned for gold, opened a general store, then became cattle ranchers. Amanda Gray, her brother and five sisters emigrated from Illinois in 1850 to start a new life in California. The diary describes the wagon train trip west, the Indians they met, deaths posted on tress on the trail, and their final arrival in California. Nathan Gilmore and his brother Andrews diary, documents their emigration from Ohio, in 1850, to Hangtown California, Site of the gold rush.
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