Former US Route 40-95 in the City of Lovelock, Nevada was located on Cornell Avenue. Lovelock is the Pershing County Seat and has been part of several major transcontinental corridors of travel dating back to the migrant days of the California Trail. US Route 40 was truncated out of Nevada in 1975 but Cornell Avenue wasn't bypassed by Interstate 80 until 1983. Pictured above is Main Street on Nevada State Route 398 facing towards the Pershing County Courthouse. Part 1; the history of US Route 40-95 on Cornell Avenue in Lovelock Lovelock lies within the Humboldt River Basin of the Great Basin Desert. During the period of the California Gold Rush the area which is presently occupied by the City of Lovelock was part of a marsh known as Big Meadows. The waters of Humboldt Lake, Humboldt River and Big Meadows came to be a well known stopping point for migrants on the California Trail. Big Meadows can be seen on the 1863 DeGroot's Map of Nevada ...
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