1949 Map of Alleghany

About this map

Alleghany serves as the primary hub for a landscape defined by intensive gold mining and timbered slopes within the Tahoe National Forest. By the late 1940s, this area of the Sierra Nevada shows a transition from active operations like the Oriental Mine and Plumbago Mine to numerous sites marked inactive, such as the Eldorado Mine and Morning Glory Mine. The map is particularly valuable for documenting former settlements along the Middle Yuba River and its tributaries, now recorded only as historical footprints. Notable among these are Minnesota Flat, Orleans Flat, and Moores Flat, which appear as cleared flats alongside a network of ravines and ridges. The presence of the Cem near the main townsite and isolated structures like the American Hill Cabin provides specific points of interest for genealogists tracing local families and early mountain settlers.