Wednesday, October 22, 2008

93 MILE HOUSE

93 MILE HOUSE

Is a unincorporated settlement located just 11 kilometers south of 100 Mile House at the junction of where Highway #97 meets Highway #24, a highway that goes 97-kilometers through communities such as Lone Butte and Bridge Lake to its eastern terminus at the community at Little Fort. 93 Mile House’s history dates back to the Cariboo Gold Rush of the 1860s, when a roadhouse was built to serve travelers that were heading up to the Cariboo Goldfields at Barkerville. Its name is a reference to its distance from Lillooet along the Cariboo Wagon Road. Light industry and log-home building are the community’s only benefactors of the economy. 93 Mile House is unincorporated with no services for travelers.

93 MILE HOUSE’S POPULATION: 86

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