The
wagons carrying the boiler departed Los Angeles July 17, 1861, and they arrived
in Holcomb Valley on August 13, of that same year.
Despite
the fact that he constructed the road with the help of his financial backers,
it is Brown who is linked with the Cajon Pass toll road in the annals of
history. And, it was Brown who would be faced
with heart-ache, beginning during December of 1861 when torrential rains
flooded San Bernardino County. The
storms lasted through mid-January of 1862, and they destroyed the toll
road. One witness, who had been hiking
in the area noted that new lakes had appeared throughout the area, and that the
road was gone.
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| The seemingly untouched wilderness in the Cajon Pass. Cleghorn Range. Photo by Scott Schwartz. All rights reserved. |
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