In Sierra County, it was a way station on the Sierra Turnpike. The name was sometimes recorded as Negro Tent. Some sources state that the place was known as Hollow Log in 1850. J. D. Borthwick (1857) states that a negro had a way station at Nigger Tent in the fall of 1852, first in a tent, then in a cabin. According to an article in the Nevada County Historical Society publication of May, 1850, it was the site of a notorious hostelry established by "Italian gypsies" who came here in 1851 from Goodyears Bar. W. B. Meek, who was well acquainted with the area from the days of his youth, recalled that the notorious hostelry was run by a Mrs. Romargi, a native of Florida, and that her husband had a mining claim two miles away. Rough characters and criminals are said to have used it as a hideout.

- Erwin G. Gudde, 1975

A wayside station on the Downieville pack trail east of Camptonville. Originally a tent owned by black miners, where fortune hunters on their way to the gold fields could purchase tools, food and other necessities for the journey. It was soon replaced by a cabin and eventually expanded into a hotel. At one point Nigger Tent, which specialized in oxtails, was considered one of favorite restaurants of area gold miners. Today, the site is marked by three Poplar trees and a Forest Service sign.

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