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The name Tioga is undoubtedly derived from Tioga County, New York. It is an Iroquois Indian name, meaning “where it forks,” applied to a former village on the Susquehanna near its junction with the Chemung, in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. (Hodge: Handbook of American Indians, part 2, p. 755.)
The mines of the Tioga District were discovered about 1878, although some claims existed earlier. In 1881 the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company was incorporated by eastern capitalists. A post-office and town, called Bennettville for the president of the company, were established. Supplies were hauled from Lundy. Operations were suspended in July, 1884, because of financial failure. (Eighth Annual Report of the State Mineralogist, 1888, pp. 371-373.)
The road was built by the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company in 1882 and 1883 at a cost of about $61,000; properly called “The Great Sierra Wagon Road”; abandoned soon after completion on account of closing down of mines. (Report of the Commission on Roads in Yosemite National Park, California, dated December 4, 1899, Senate Document 155, 56th Congress, 1st Session, 1900.) The road was purchased from successors of mining company by private subscription in 1915 and donated to Federal Government.
“There is also another gap on the north side of Mount Dana, which is called MacLane’s Pass; it is about 600 feet lower than the Mono Pass, and has been examined, in behalf of the county, by a committee appointed to search out a better route than the present one across the mountains, in this vicinity; what conclusion was arrived at we have not ascertained.” (Whitney Survey: Geology, 1865, p. 434.)
Tioga Lake was formerly known as Lake Jessie Montrose. (Lieutenant H. C. Benson’s map, 1896.)
Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar
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