I’m still somewhat confused about Pintraders’s photo because I don’t know where that was taken (exactly) or what direction the camera was facing. It looks like the ‘S’ curve that they recently bypassed. But if that is true, it would seem the arrow on the sign is pointing the wrong direction. Back in the 1960s and early 70s, I remember several signs on 76 with the miner pointing the way. It seems like one (or more) may have said something like, “You are almost there.”
In the early 1960s, Indian Point Road cut across directly in front of Wilderness Church and the McHaffie homestead. There was a parking lot in the square where the gazebo is now. By 1963, they closed that parking lot and opened another one where Flooded Mine, the depot, and the (old) woodcarvers barn is. Eventually, a new highway was constructed to route traffic around SDC to Indian Point. So, there have been several different places to enter SDC in the past.
Another thing: it seems that the miner on the old signs morphed into an ax carrying woodsman somewhere along the way. I like to know when that change happened.