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This 1866 photograph shows a busy main drag in the city of Cisco, California. Several Calistoga-style wagons crowd the frame of the photograph, making their way through a temporary city of saloons, hotels and livery stables. In the background are fir stands and mounds of granite. Located in the Sierra Nevada section of Placer County and just one-half mile off the Central Pacific Railroad, it was named in 1865 after the railroad’s treasurer, John J. Cisco. Cisco officially opened as a stop on the railroad on December 3, 1866. Soon going by the name of Cisco Grove, the town became a popular stop along Highway 40 prior to the arrival of Interstate Freeway 80. The photograph was taken by Alfred A. Hart, official photographer of the Central Pacific Railroad.
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