Jesus Maria Road is a mostly single lane rural highway corridor located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Calaveras County. As presently configured Jesus Maria Road begins at Railroad Flat Road and extends approximately 13 miles west to California State Route 26 near Mokelumne Hill. Jesus Maria Road is named after the former Gold Rush era townsite of Jesus Maria. The town and road were both named after a Mexican farmer who resided in the area during the mining heyday of Calaveras County. The town of Jesus Maria would largely be defunct by the 1890s and there are no longer any vintage structures remaining. Much of Jesus Maria Road east of the namesake town originally followed Whiskey Slide but was realigned onto the modern alignment in the 1940s. Calaveras County designates Jesus Maria Road as County Road 27 and has recently surfaced most of the corridor. Part 1; the history of Jesus Maria Road Jesus Maria Road is named after the former mining co...
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