Algerine Road is a 4.4 mile mostly single lane rural highway located in Tuolumne County. The corridor of Algerine Road begins at Jacksonville Road near the outskirts of Jamestown and terminates at the intersection of Twist Road and Algerine-Wards Ferry Road. Algerine Road is named after the 1853-era mining community of Algerine. Said mining community was located along Algerine Road at Curtis Creek. The mines at Algerine were known for hydraulic processing of gold ore which rapidly depleted in the early California Gold Rush. Algerine Road once served as the most direct highway between Jamestown and the Tuolumne River crossing at Wards Ferry. In 1925 a single-lane tee beam bridge was installed at Curtis Creek near the former Algerine town site. The history of Algerine Road Algerine Road is named after the ghost town of Algerine (alternatively Algerine Camp). The Algerine mining camp was located approximately two miles from the to...
Jacksonville Road is an approximately 10-mile-long rural highway located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Tuolumne County. The corridor of Jacksonville Road begins at California State Routes 49 and 120 at the Don Pedro Reservoir and extends northward to Campo Seco Road at the outskirts of Jamestown. Jacksonville Road is named after the former community of Jacksonville. Jacksonville had been founded in 1849 during the height of the California Gold Rush. The town site was ultimately razed and submerged during the expansion of the Don Pedro Reservoir in the late 1960s. Jacksonville and Jacksonville Road can both be seen on the 1935 Division of Highways map of Tuolumne County . Part 1; the history of Jacksonville Road Jacksonville was a community located on the Tuolumne River in southwest Tuolumne County. Jacksonville was settled during Spring 1849 by Julian Smart along a location on the Tuolumne River which became a hot bed of mining activit...