Maxon Road is an approximately five-mile rural highway located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Fresno County. The corridor begins at Watts Valley Road and extends eastward to Trimmer Springs Road at the Pine Flat Reservoir. Maxon Road is named after the Maxon's Hotel which used be located on the Kings River near the Trimmer Springs Resort. The highway corridor begins appearing on maps in the 1920s and was modernized during 1947-1954 amid construction of Pine Flat Dam. Part 1; the history of Maxon Road The corridor of Maxon Road is named after Maxon's Hotel was located on Trimmer Springs Road next to the site of the Trimmer Springs Resort. The history of Maxon's Hotel is not clearly documented compared to the Trimmer Springs Resort. In 1889 Morris Trimmer would develop a resort along the Sanger Log Flume Road (now Trimmer Springs Road). The Trimmer Springs resort would obtain Post Office Service originally the same year it opened. B...
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