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Stereoview of Lime Point on the Central Pacific Railroad

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Stereoview of Lime Point on the Central Pacific Railroad
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Here is a unique location that your friends have never heard of. So, where is it. Our only clue is that is "35 miles distant." But distant to what. I found another Watkins stereoview that shows the Truckee Meadows (Reno) and states it is 20 miles distant to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. If so, this would make Lime Point just about where the Clark, Nevada (near the Tracy Power Plant) is located. Carleton Watkins was one of the most highly acclaimed of early western photographers. His photographs of Yosemite helped influence Congress and President Lincoln in the preservation of Yosemite Valley. Watkins' Pacific Railroad stereoview series documents construction of the trans-continental railroad from Sacramento to Utah. City: Lime Point, Washoe State: Nevada Date: HWAC# 99529