Plumas County, CA History

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta Jul 2009

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Illustrated History of PLUMAS, LASSEN & SIERRA Counties
with CALIFORNIA from 1513 to 1850, Farriss & Smith , 1882, San Francisco.


SUMMIT. - Near the highest point in the pass, on the road from the 
valley to Reno, lies the little town of Summit. In 1859 C. T. Adams erected a 
hotel here, which was destroyed by fire in 1866. A small store was opened in 
1862, by a man named Wilkinson. He was also the first postmaster. The present 
incumbent of that office is Richard Martin, who does a general merchandising 
business, and deals extensively in butter, handling 3,000 lbs. per week. William 
E. Jones, commonly called Paul Jones, keeps an excellent hotel, the Summit 
House. A blacksmith shop and shoe-maker's shop are also among the adjuncts of 
the town. A lodge of I. O. O. F., recently removed from Loyalton, is located 
here. There is also a cemetery, neatly fenced and kept in good order.