Glenbrook

"Every time I visit an occupied old mining town, I like to capture one piece of remembrance best signifying the place. Unfortunately, the old lumber town of Glenbrook is now a private-gated community accessible only by residents and those with a passcode. Little do people know that Glenbrook is much more than prime Lake Tahoe real estate: it's home to the only historic cemetery on the east shore of Lake Tahoe. I'm not sure why Glenbrook is gated, but it's unfortunate to the general public. I finally paid a visit to this old lumber town a few months after conquered #219, and discovered that the cemetery was well-preserved with a good number of elaborate headstones. Its setting is quite bucolic, nestled in a small valley about a quarter mile from the lake shore. Out of many frames, I decided to capture Glenbrook using a mysterious sepia tone that might reflect more on this quaint and quiet location. From the portrait format, to the fallen pine cones ... I believe everything came together nicely." -- August 2007

US 50 and Glenbrook Rd. -- Glenbrook

Original Date Visited: 8/14/07
Revisited: 9/13/20
Signed: Both lanes of US 50

Notes: The approach to this one comes up extremely fast so keep your eyes peeled from whichever direction you're coming from! The safest way to tackle this marker is by anticipating the turnoff to "Glenbrook," 2 miles west Spooner Summit. The marker hides in the trees almost out of plain view as US 50 makes a quick turn south. Be safe!

Street View

Here's what you'll see!

The bustling logging and lumbering era, circa 1866 An exact replica of the V-shaped flume used during the lumbering era Marker 219 at Glenbrook This marker can be easily missed on the busy 50!

Exact Description:
Lumbering operations in the Glenbrook area of Lake Tahoe began in 1861. Consolidation of V- flume systems in and near Clear Creek Canyon by 1872 made it possible to float lumber, cordwood, and sawed material from Spooner's Summit to Carson City and to eliminate wagon hauling over the 9-year old Lake Bigler Toll Road (King's Canyon Road).

In 1875, the new Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company, under Duane Bliss, assumed all operations, becoming the largest Comstock wood and lumber combine. It controlled over 50,000 acres of timberland, operating 2 to 4 sawmills, 2 Lake Tahoe steam tugs to tow logs, 2 logging railroads, the logging camps employing 500 men, and a planing mill and box factory in Carson City.

Timber depletion and reduced Comstock mining closed the company in 1898; it had taken 750,000,000 board feet of lumber and 500,000 cords of wood from Tahoe Basin forests during its lifetime.

COVERED IN MY US 50 ROAD TRIP

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Related Links & Markers:

- 193 - Historic Flume & Lumber Yard - 225 - Spooner Area ... - 261 - Spooner Summit History of Glenbrook (NV Tami)

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