Hi, The biographical information below if for an ancestor of my wife. I have been trying for years to find any information about the "Eagle Hotel" or "the old Nevada Road above Sacramento." The property in question is located at the corner of Base Line Road and Country Acres Lane in Roseville, California. I would appreciate any help finding information about the hotel or the road. Thank you for your help. Ken Tessendorff James and Mary (Dickinson) Cummins, the former of whom was born in Greenbrier county, Va., in 1814 and the latter born the same year in Licking county, Ohio. They settled first in Illinois, then removed to Bates county, MO., where Mary died in 1847 . . . >From Bates county, the family removed to Henry county, but later settled in Ray county. Rumors of gold reaching the quiet agricultural region of Bates county, James Cummins crossed the plains in 1850, and in 1851 returned to his family of children with several thousand dollars made in the mines around Hangtown. In 1852 he returned to the coast with a part of his family, he having married a second time. He bought and conducted the Eagle hotel on the old Nevada road above Sacramento, until 1855, but that year sold it, and with a daughter and Thomas J., returned to Missouri. In 1857 he purchased five hundred head of cattle to drive across the plains to Calaveras county, Ca., settling near the little town of Jenny Lind, where he followed stock-raising for several years. He then returned to Greenbrier county, Va., in hope of regaining health lost through over-exertion in the west. A year later he went to Hillsdale, Kans., where his death occurred in 1878.

Your "old Nevada Road" may actually be Highway 49 which does run "above Sacramento" and smack dap thru the middle of Gold Country. Here's a link that may help - it mentions Hangtown - now known as Grass Valley. http://www.aboutnevadacounty.com/history/ Christine -----Original Message----- From: Ktsc100@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 6:06 AM To: NORCAL@rootsweb.com Subject: [NORCAL] Question for California historians Hi, The biographical information below if for an ancestor of my wife. I have been trying for years to find any information about the "Eagle Hotel" or "the old Nevada Road above Sacramento." The property in question is located at the corner of Base Line Road and Country Acres Lane in Roseville, California. I would appreciate any help finding information about the hotel or the road. Thank you for your help. Ken Tessendorff James and Mary (Dickinson) Cummins, the former of whom was born in Greenbrier county, Va., in 1814 and the latter born the same year in Licking county, Ohio. They settled first in Illinois, then removed to Bates county, MO., where Mary died in 1847 . . . >From Bates county, the family removed to Henry county, but later settled in Ray county. Rumors of gold reaching the quiet agricultural region of Bates county, James Cummins crossed the plains in 1850, and in 1851 returned to his family of children with several thousand dollars made in the mines around Hangtown. In 1852 he returned to the coast with a part of his family, he having married a second time. He bought and conducted the Eagle hotel on the old Nevada road above Sacramento, until 1855, but that year sold it, and with a daughter and Thomas J., returned to Missouri. In 1857 he purchased five hundred head of cattle to drive across the plains to Calaveras county, Ca., settling near the little town of Jenny Lind, where he followed stock-raising for several years. He then returned to Greenbrier county, Va., in hope of regaining health lost through over-exertion in the west. A year later he went to Hillsdale, Kans., where his death occurred in 1878. ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message