Pioneer Ski Area of America, Squaw Valley

Pioneer Ski Area of America, Squaw Valley is a California Historical Landmark in Placer County.

Squaw Valley State Recreation Area · location approximate

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The VIII Olympic Winter Games of 1960 commemorated a century of sport skiing in California. By 1860 the Sierra Nevada, particularly at the mining towns of Whiskey Diggings, Poker Flat, Port Wine, Onion Valley, La Porte, and Johnsville, some 60 miles north of Squaw Valley, saw the first organized ski clubs and competition in the western hemisphere.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

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1863 · DeGroot's Map Of Nevada Territory. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · The Central Part of the State of California. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Northern California. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Map Showing California Pacific Rail Road Extension (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Truckee, California (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

The Central Part of the State of California, 1865, covering the location of Pioneer Ski Area of America, Squaw Valley, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — The Central Part of the State of California, 1865, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

Pioneer Ski Area of America, Squaw Valley

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