Some came as early as the thaw allowed and stayed to the beginning of the cold season. We only had baby food for my sister, candy bars and other snacks were available at the hotel and dad caught fish. Mr. Monohon will carry mail between Georgetown and Hulfish(Post Office at Wentworth Springs) during the summer season. A motto we have heard is "Make dust not mud.". Please show some patience when slow downs occur. In the words of Judge Wilbur Johnson…………..”Picture No. In the August 4, 1882 Georgetown Gazette, the editor wrote…….”Since dieting a few days on bottled water from Wentworth’s soda Springs, we feel like a new man. Wentworth Springs weather report includes high and low temperatures, humidity, precipitation, barometric pressure, hour by hour, sunrise, sunset, wind speed and direction - and any NWS watches, warnings or advisories in California. So I believe buying the Jerrett Ranch and Wentworth Springs was a natural thing for this actor who like his father had a great interest in the out of doors, the mountains and trout fishing. Even the old poker games which I remember seeing in the front part of the store were gone as well. It was also fortunate that gasoline was available. Mary’s Lake one of the original seperate little lakes which made up the original Loon Lake before the Loon Lake Dam of 1882 was most probably named for Mary Wentworth. The spit was just behind the stage stop building shown in photo 2. In the background is the venerable 1929 Model A Coach that we had taken, a year or so before, to beyond Spider Lake, sluice box and all. I also lay on a decent mattress left on a bed on the second floor. fire restrictions are in force. If you can put off your trip until the trail dries, please do so. He put me on the bus home and I never saw him or Eva again. Jonni Hill’s photograph looks to be a late 1950s or very early 1960s photograph. I like to think that the military still imbues that missing character trait. These two publications have the majority of information written on people and places on the Georgetown Divide, including Wentworth Springs. I guess we were successful for we survived. Nathan was born in Maine while his wife Mary was born in Michigan, a native of Ann Harbor. As there is no better place or time to tell, I will mention a mystery! Wentworth Club, private golf and country club in Surrey, England.Wentworth is a distinguished country club destination offering outstanding sports, dining and spa facilities over a beautiful 700 hectare-estate. In the words of Judge Wilbur Johnson………”Robert S. Jerrett and his wife, Eva. Being a sheep rancher outside Georgetown, he slaughtered two lambs for barbecue at the Springs. The store, gasoline sales, and hotel services were over. 1st 1884. Some trails or park services may be closed this weekend so check with local authorities before heading out. I remember these events first hand as do a number of other Gerle Creek Tract Cabin Owners. Heavy freight and tanks will not be carried.” Georgetown Gazette July 3, 1902, “A petition has been in circulation here this week, which will be presented to the Board of Supervisors asking that august body to repair the wagon road between Wentworth Springs and Rubicon Springs in a substantial manner and to put it in a safe and good condition for travel. The article offered a wonderful map of the entire California Central Valley but focused on potential road trips for the intrepid motorist to Wentworth Springs from Georgetown as well as suggested side trips including Robbs Peak, Pino Grande Logging operations and the Pino Grande Lumber Mill. I first traveled it in the summer of 1877 and it was a most delightful renewal of my early impression through the mighty timber….Wentworth Springs….owned by Nathan Wentworth whose well built hotel is in a beautiful valley, in which a number of sparkling, health-giving springs are an attraction that annually bring thither numerous tourists from this county as well as Sacramento and Placer counties. He also announced that he intended to rename the ranch La Cazador. Many of the published pieces were also picked up by the Mountain Democrat. wet. The article reports the road to be impassable to automobiles from Wentworth Springs to Lake Tahoe, but that Wentworth Springs had gasoline ,oil and supplies for any motorist making the trip to the best hunting and fishing area in Eldorado National Forest. N. Wentworth, Frank Wentworth and Guy E. Wentworth. Tahoe National Forests, and is often under fire In the spring run off it was an awsome sight. As reported by the newspaper above during September 1882, Wentworth was going about the business of selling soda water while building the resort building which would become the centerpiece of the resort. If you can’t make the obstacle (water or granite) “Turn around, don’t go around!”. The road across the two dams at Loon Lake are open to winter motorized recreation. Quite a number were from Sacramento, City and County, and Georgetown, Greenwood and vicinity were largely were largely represented. This main building would stand up year after year to the snow loads till finally going away in the 1980s, in spite of the steel cables installed in the upper part of the building to strengthen it. The western maintained section of the route is called the Wentworth Springs Road; it begins in Georgetown, California, a hamlet in California's Gold Country. He will run a two horse wagon and will be prepared to carry light packages. Richard Wentworth made his first trip to Wentworth Springs in 1951. I think I have mentioned the art of packing in those days. There were no tent houses, cabins; nothing! After the flooding damage, the owners were never able to recover back to their traditional resort offerings. If you feel out of rig, take a trip to Wentworth’s Springs. (most likely around 1936) A life in the elements doth make for aging. In doing some research on the Chaney family, Lon Chaney Jr’s father’s passion was their mountain cabin on a lake in Southern California where they spent all of their spare time away from movie making fishing for trout on the lake. There they would scoop up some snow and pack it in the Al Forjas bags and return to the Springs. My father became quite good friends with Orin Ellingson and helped him build the A frame that still stands today. I ran across this old copy of the original letter (below) mailed to my family in 1966 by Miles Curran. In the photo, Robert, looks rather old; however, he was only about 60 when the photo (undated) was taken. These well and favorably known Springs will be open for health and pleasure seekers July. the income of the paper did not justify hiring a printer, so we just let it rest and went up to see what virtue there was in the waters of Wentworth’s Soda Spring. It was at that campfire that I kissed a girl for the first time.Mr. As the snow melt dries the fire danger increases. They had made a $30,000 bet with a casino that they could take it all the way through. It’s not a mob scene story; there would be about 40 persons (man, woman and child) in attendance but I wanted to enjoy all of it, not turning a crank! In the words of Judge Wilbur Johnson…………”Picture 4 is of a tent house adjacent to Gerle, out of sight to the left in the photo. The Road is just out of sight to the right. Wentworth Springs hand water pump installed on a wooden dock into Gerle Creek. As local newspapers have always done, the Georgetown Gazette did a wonderful job of periodically sharing/advertising for the many businesses which were local and aligned with the local population. We only had baby food for my sister, candy bars and other snacks were available at the hotel and dad caught fish. There is a winch plate at the top. Wentworth Springs-1880,Eldorado National Forest, El Dorado County, Ca. The Model A was, as you mention, an early Jeep like vehicle. The telegraph was Vic’s stentorian voice giving advice as to direction, revs on the shaft, etc. The Inside North Fork Road is currently closed at Logging Creek RS and Fish Creek due to the following reasons. If you can make the type out! We went up with Charlie Nagler, the Greenwood merchant, and a more jolly, sociable and entertaining gentleman we never traveled with. The MLS # for this home is MLS# 19064869. This property is currently available for sale and was listed on Sep 13, 2019. They didn’t break that way. You walked to it or buried as you must. (Bixby, not Mary’s) We made a raft of available flotsam; how we did it is altogether lost to me. Check the weather before departure. The water is very palatable, sparkling and health giving to all who drink it, and 49 out of 50 prefer it to the coldest and purest fresh water. In the last issue we stated our illness, but did not conclude to suspend paper for a period and go to the Springs until the following Monday. You can see a little white mark on the left of the white water about half way down. Wow! MLS# 19078679. That is either me or my dad, I do not remember which took the photo. The 2,400 sq. (Sheryle Rambeau, 2010)According to the 1880 Census, Nathan was married to Mary E. Wentworth and had three children, Lillie. We were only too happy to camp. Loon Lake, two miles Southeast, and nearly 200 feet higher than Lake Tahoe, is a natural body of pure fresh water of some 1300 acres of surface, and in places 40 to 60 feet in depth; but since the construction of the dam, its size has been greatly increased, and will, when the monster granite dam now being built by the California W. & M. Co. is completed, embrace an area of about 7 square miles. From Wentworth Springs to the Rubicon Springs, is not exceeding ten miles, measured in feet and inches, but a mile of good road is a mile, and how far a mile of this is, I do not dare to state. Although I have no picture of it, the inn at Rubicon Springs was a carbon copy of the building at Wentworth. Monohon of Negro Hill was in town Monday en route to Wentworth Springs. 8728 Wentworth Springs Rd was built in 1951 and last sold for $292,000. Only under severe conditions does the trail ever close, and this is usually lift as quickly as possible. At our first stay at Wentworth (the Springs) the was nothing more than the stage stop and a small tool shed behind. View more property details, sales history and Zestimate data on Zillow. It will be known as Hulfish Post Office.” Georgetown Gazette April 4, 1901, “J.M. El Dorado National Forest: Under Fire Restrictions in effect May 29, 2020 through Nov 30,2020
I was an acolyte to him for a wonderful time in my life. Do you have any information about a plane crash at Loon Lake? Board and Bed are $8per week, and $7 with out bed.”(Gernes; Deibert, 1999). I do not know, and was never told, when he came into possession of the parcel. He brought back a LOT of fish and Wentworth Springs became our vacation place of choice. The “tenders”, etc., of the various entities that had jurisdiction, must have known of the “thing”! It was a significant way point between Georgetown and Lake Tahoe via McKinney’s on the West side of Lake Tahoe, although not as famous for its mineral water as it’s more famous neighbor to the East, Rubicon Springs. These roads are super fun, endlessly twisty, remote, few sideroads and few people almost year-round. We never did that again. We’d have to go to the recorder’s office in Placerville to check that out. “We were returning from Detroit with a new 1951 Olds that my father picked up at the factory.