A gallery of our annual Donner Summit Historical Society posters celebrating different aspects of Donner Summit history.
Celebrating intrepid bicyclists who crossed Donner Summit. Thomas Stevens was the first who crossed in 1885 and then went on the cross the continent and go around the world.
Tunnel 6 the longesrt of the 15 Sierra railroad tunnels. It took two years to build as the Chinese progressed only inches a day.
Old Highway 40 and the Donner Summit (Rainbow) bridge, the precursors to I-80
The major Donner Summit Firsts: first wagons to California, First transcontinental railroad, highway, air route, and telephone line. There were also lots of little firsts.
The transcontinental railroad and the Chinese builders. Without them it would be impossible to go on with the work. E.B. Crocker, 1867
Native Americans who summered on Donner Summit leaving behind petroglyphs and grinding rocks thousands of years old.
The snowsheds of Donner Summit - the iconic symbols that protected 40 miles of transcontinental railroad.
