| Maiden's Grave | |
|---|---|
| Location | State Highway 88, Kirkwood, California |
| Coordinates | 38°37′54″N 120°10′16″W / 38.6318°N 120.171233°W / 38.6318; -120.171233 |
| California Historical Landmark | |
| Reference # | 28 |
In 1850, Rachel Melton was buried west of Carson's Pass. Her family was traveling from Iowa when Melton, a young girl, became ill. The family camped out with a goal to improve on Melton's health, but she died. The site is a California Historical Landmark.
Read more about this topic: Carson Pass
Famous quotes containing the words maiden and/or grave:
“It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstances—from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)