Photo Album Page 2aq :  The Donner Park memorial - June 2007.  The "Donner Party" were a group of early settlers who were trapped here while trying to find a new route to California in the winter of 1846/7. Many died and they resorted to cannibalism.  The big rock on the left formed the North end of the winter shelter where they were trapped.

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