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Pino Grande, California

Unincorporated community in California, United States

Field	Value
name	Pino Grande
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
pushpin_map	California#USA
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in California
pushpin_image	California Locator Map with US.PNG
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	California
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	El Dorado County
established_title
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
elevation_m	1226
elevation_ft	4022

| Pino Grande (Spanish for "Large Pine") is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. at an elevation of 4022 feet (1226 m).

History

A post office operated at Pino Grande from 1892 to 1899, with a move in 1893, and from 1902 to 1909. The community's name was also formerly spelt as "Pinogrande".

Pino Grande was the lumber milling area for the Michigan-California Lumber Company. Besides the mill, there were dozens of workers cabins, a hospital, a school, cooks building, machine shops and sheds. The camp was, in itself, a small company town. The narrow-gauge railway the lumber company built served the area for decades. The mill, camp, railroad, tracks, trestles, engines, rolling stock, etc., are now long gone. The area where Pino Grande once stood is within the Eldorado National Forest.

The Pino Grande Railroad traveled along a narrow-gauge track through the Georgetown Divide area. This narrow-gauge railroad hauled vast amounts of Ponderosa and Sugar Pine timber through the rugged terrain of the Divide as well as other parts of El Dorado County.

References

{{gnis. 252767
It is located {{convert. 8. mi. km. 0 north-northwest of [[Pollock Pines, California. 538

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