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All Roads Lead to Raymond
From 1886 to 1907 most travelers to Yosemite used the railroad, stagecoach, wagons and horseback to arrive in Raymond, the terminus of the Southern Pacific railway and then continued by stage or horseback to Wawona. In Raymond’s heydey, the local granite quarry provided Sierra White, the densest white granite in the United States, to growing San Francisco and Los Angeles, anchored a prospering ranching culture and provided goods and services for the ever increasing gold mines. From grubstacker to homesteader, from Calvary Colonel to a US President, all passed on the roads leading to Raymond.
