Southeast portion of the U.S. Geological Survey 1916 Topographical Map of the Byron Quadrangle, California, showing the historic Mountain Home on Mountain House Creek.
In 1849 Thomas Goodall erected a blue denim cloth tent to serve as a midway stopover for gold miners headed from San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) foothills via Altamont Pass. Goodall eventually built an adobe house at the eastern edge of the Diablo Range hills, calling it The Mountain House. Simon Zimmerman later acquired the stop and it became known as Zimmerman's Mountain House, and became a well-known way station stop on the way to Stockton. The last remaining settlement buildings were leveled in 1940.[5] In November 1994, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors officially launched the new community of Mountain House two miles to the northwest along Mountain House Creek.
The Elk Horn post office, which operated from 1852 to 1853, was located at or near Mountain House.[2]
In 1915 the county road, passing in front of Mountain House, became the Lincoln Highway, America's first to-coast paved road.[6]
The Mountain House Bar now occupies the site of the original Mountain House, and is located at 16784 West Grantline Road.
^ abcDurham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 667. ISBN1-884995-14-4.
^Wallace, William J. (1978). Robert F. Heizer (ed.). Northern Valley Yokuts, in Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 8, California. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 462–470. ISBN9780160045745.
^History of Tracy, California with Biographical Sketches. Los Angeles, California: Historic Record Company. 1923.
