No one responded to last week’s question posed by the Idyllwild Area Historical Society board. I assume it was so named because it is a sharp, hairpin, deadly curve. Many traffic collisions have occurred on that stretch of Highway 243.
Do you know how Deadman’s Curve was named?
By Idyllwild Town Crier
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