Because I'm a geek, I made myself a little tool to download these scroll & zoom maps from raremaps.com and geographicus.com as single images. Let
me know if you want any full-resolution images....
The road to the Santa María mission was made by Fred Hampe of Rancho Santa Ynez (around 1959-1965).
Arturo Grosso (Laguna Chapala) made the road north to the sulfur mine from his ranch and Gonzaga Bay. The sulfur mine was worked from about 1951 to
1960 so there was a road from it to San Felipe already.
The 1962 Gulick map shows the road completed 12.1 miles (of the 14.5) to the mission.
I never heard of Grosso being credited for any other road besides the one north from Chapala to San Felipe!?
It wouldn't surprise me, he was a pretty amazing man.
As for the first accurate map of that road, well the 1956 Gulick maps would be the earliest accurate map, and the 1962 ones are the same for the main
road from El Mármol to El Arco... Just additional roads along the Pacific were added:
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