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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W3P_the-cary-mill-historical_Gardnerville-NV.html
Here stood the first grist mill in Carson Valley built in Mill Canyon Genoa in 1854 by wheelwright Thomas Knott for Colonel John Reese. It was moved to this site by William M. Cary in 1865.
Behind the mill stood a dwelling house, which served a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VTE_carson-trail-upland-travel-historical_Gardnerville-NV.html
"The trail, on leaving camp, entered a strip of upland, covered with wild sage and brush and through which run several mountain streams of much beauty." - Silas Newcomb, Aug 28, 1850
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PBO_hiram-mott_Gardnerville-NV.html
Buried here are Hiram Mott and family, emigrants from Canada. Isreal Mott, son of Hiram built this house a few yards east of the spot in July 1852. Eliza his wife was the first white women settler in Nevada. Their child Louisa was the first white …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OJM_walleys-hot-springs_Gardnerville-NV.html
Like many Nevada hot springs, these dot a fault break along which the mountains rise.In 1862, along this Carson branch of the emigrant trail, David and Harriet Walley developed a $100,000 spa with 11 baths, a ballroom and gardens. The thermal wate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OJ6_twelve-mile-house_Gardnerville-NV.html
An important hostelry was so named because of its distance from Genoa and also from Cradlebaugh Bridge across the Carson River. It was built in 1860 by Thomas Wheeler, where the Boyd Toll Road to Genoa and the Cradlebaugh Toll Road to Carson City …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BE6_double-springs_Gardnerville-NV.html
Double Springs was the notorious Round Tent Ranch, or Spragues, another station on the road to Esmeralda. Here, James C. Dean, one of the owners and Justice of the Peace in the district in 1864, murdered his wife. This station was connected by the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM112P_garden-cemetery_Gardnerville-NV.html
The Garden Cemetery was established in the late 1800's. Interred here are generations of prominent Carson Valley families. All who are laid to rest here are part of the history of this community, and their contributions to The Valley stand today.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQTP_mottsville_Gardnerville-NV.html
This is the site of the settlement on the Emigrant Trail known as Mottsville, where Hiram Mott and his son Israel settled in 1851. Their homestead was the scene of an impressive number of firsts in Carson County, Utah Territory:
1851: Israel M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN2G_luther-canyon_Gardnerville-NV.html
Luther Canyon, west of this site, takes its name from Ira M. Luther, who from 1858-1865 had a sawmill there. The house behind the marker was his home. He was a delegate to the second Nevada Territorial Legislature. After 1865, the canyon came to b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIOL_record-courier-building_Gardnerville-NV.html
The Record Courier has been published in Douglas County since 1904 when Dr. Southworth merged the Gardnerville Record and the Genoa Weekly Courier into one newspaper. In 2004 the Record Courier marks a solid century of printing.
This building h…