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| Landmark #28 | Amador County | Visited: July 12, 2015 | Plaque? NO. 🙁 |
| What is it? | The marked grave of an unknown person on the side of Highway 88! |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: It is said that in 1850, a young girl, Rachel Melton, native of Iowa, was accompanying her parents on a journey West via covered wagon train when she became violently ill. Camp was made and every effort was made to cure her, as she was the joy of the party, but she passed away and was buried on this spot.
OTHER TIDBITS: Rachel’s grave is actually about two miles east of here! What happened is that nobody came back to her grave site for many years and forgot where she was buried! Some helpful folks in Kirkwood guided her elderly mother to a spot where they’d seen a gravestone from that time period, and it became designated as Rachel’s gravesite. Then, in 1986, a local landowner was clearing brush and found another grave that was officially determined to belong to Rachel! The landmark grave belonged to a young man who died at roughly the same time, but nobody knows who he was or where he is currently buried, because Highway 88 has changed routes several times! |
| How can I Help the Helpers? | HERE’S HOW:
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| Where is this place? | LISTED DIRECTIONS: On State Hwy 88 (P.M. 61.3) 10.5 mi W of Kirkwood, CA 95666 ANNOTATIONS: From Los Angeles: ~427mi (688km) — 7.2hrs |
| When should I go? | Whenever the mood strikes you! |