Transportation
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Coming west with Ezra Meeker in 1852, Thomas McAuley decided to build a road so emigrants could bypass Big Hill, considered the worst of all Oregon Trail descents. Eliza McAuley recalled that her brother Tom, after fishing for a while, took a ramble and discovered a pass by which the mountain could be avoided with a little road building. With an emigrant crew, he opened a wagon toll road that followed the route of current Highway 30. After 1852, no one maintained the new route, and it fell into disuse.
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