One of the actions we have called for to protect the Parkway is to consider designating the American River Watershed as a National Historic Area, http://www.cr.nps.gov/heritageareas/
a program of National Parks which allows local areas to protect their historic heritage, receive some federal funding to help, yet lose no local control over their historic resources.
This bulletin reveals yet another national historic connection, beyond that of the gold rush, our area has within it.
Show will spotlight historic highway
- Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, October 22, 2006
EL DORADO HILLS -- A slide show and history of the Lincoln Highway will be presented during Wednesday's meeting of the recently formed Clarksville Region Historical Society.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the El Dorado Hills Library Community Room, 7455 Silva Valley Parkway.
The historical society was formed to collect and preserve the history of the Clarksville region, now part of El Dorado Hills.
A portion of the old Lincoln Highway, the first paved road extending from coast to coast, runs through the former Clarksville township and was built about 1915.
Norm Root of the Lincoln Highway Association will present a slide show about the historic highway, and Russ Nygaard of the El Dorado County Transportation Department will discuss the county's early road system.
