Horseshoe Bar (site)
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Gold Rush era mining camp. Once the site of a wire suspension bridge built by Andrew Hallidie, inventor of the cable car.
"In 1855, at Horse Shoe Bar, on the Middle Fork of the American River, when he was only nineteen, he constructed a wire suspension bridge and aqueduct of 220 feet span for conveying water in an open flume, three feet wide and two feet deep."
www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hallidie.html
"In 1855, at Horse Shoe Bar, on the Middle Fork of the American River, when he was only nineteen, he constructed a wire suspension bridge and aqueduct of 220 feet span for conveying water in an open flume, three feet wide and two feet deep."
www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hallidie.html
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Coordinates: 39°0'12"N 120°45'34"W
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