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Todd Eymann Road (Fresno County)

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Todd Eymann Road is a 4.5 mile single-lane rural highway corridor located in the Sierra Nevada range of Fresno County.  Said corridor begins at Millwood Road and travels southeast through Cedarbrook to California State Route 245 near Pinehurst.  Todd Eymann Road is named the former location of Todd Ranch and was built during the 1890s to connect Millwood Road to the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company town of Noble (now Pinehurst).  




Part 1; the history of Todd Eymann Road

Todd Eymann Road was developed amid the logging boom in Converse Basin and Millwood during the 1890s.  Said corridor was developed to facilitate travel to the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company town of Noble (alternatively Neff Mills).  The road to Noble was constructed mostly just outside the boundary of the Sierra Forest Reserve which was established during February 1893.  The portion of the reserve which Todd Eymann Road now traverses was spun off as part of Sequoia National Forest during July 1908.  

The road to Noble appears for on the 1911 Edward Denny map of Fresno County in Township 14S, Range 27E.  Said highway corridor connected from Millwood southeast to the Noble community site.  The Noble town site was plotted a short distance south of Mill Creek and is now known as Pinehurst. 


The current name of Todd Eymann Road is a reference to Todd Ranch which was located north of Mill Creek.  Following the establishment of Sequoia National Forest a small resort village known as Cedarbrook was plotted within the National Forest boundary along Todd Eymann Road.  Both locations appear on the 1924 United States Geological Survey map of Dinuba.  Todd Eymann Road is shown beginning at Millwood Road near the Deer Park School and extended southeast to Neff Mills. 


Todd Eymann Road appears by name on the 1935 California Division of Highways map of Fresno County.  The corridor is shown connecting Millwood Road to the original alignment of California State Route 180.  California State Route 180 would be shifted north of Todd Eymann Road by summer 1941.  The original California State Route 180 alignment east of Pinehurst would later become parts of California State Routes 65, 69 and 245.  




Part 2; a drive on Todd Eymann Road

Eastbound Todd Eymann Road begins at Millwood Road.  



Todd Eymann Road crosses two unnamed creeks and intersects Greeley Fire Road.  From the fire road one can view Dunlap Canyon facing westward. 










Eastbound Todd Eymann Road climbs to Stony Flat which is located at about 4,100 feet above sea level.  The roadway passes by the Dunlap Sub Station approaching the Sequoia National Forest boundary.  












Eastbound Todd Eymann Road dips into Sequoia National Forest where the Cedarbrook Picnic Area can be found.  








Todd Eymann Road crosses Mill Creek and enters the community of Cedarbrook.  The roadway passes through Cedarbrook to a terminus at California State Route 245 near Pinehurst. 









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