The Forty - Niners
Near this point ten Lafayette Freemasons, operating as traveling Sierra Nevada Lodge, embarked March 27, 1849 on six-months' journey by boat to Mexico, then overland to Pacific, then by ship to California gold fields.
Marker is at the intersection of Columbia Street (Indiana Route 26) and North 6th Street, on the right when traveling west on Columbia Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
