VOLCANO CA.

THIS PLAQUE IS IN COMMEMORATION OF TWO SOLDIERS OF A PARTY FROM STEVENSON'S NEW YORK REGIMENT WHO DISCOVERED VOLCANO VALLEY IN LATE 1848 AND CAMPED HERE IN SOLDIER GULCH THROUGH A HARD WINTER. THEIR BODIES WERE DISCOVERED IN THE SPRING AND BURIED SOMEWHERE HERE BY A PARTY OF MEXICANS. MAY THESE PIONEER MINERS REST IN PEACE. DEDICATED ON JUNE 6, 1959 BY JAMES W. MARSHAL CHAPTER E.C.V

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