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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFI4_mindens-first-homesite_Minden-NV.html
This site marks the end of the Virginia and Truckee rail extension from Carson City which was completed in 1906. A depot was built here as well as first home site for the station manager, Herb Coffin. Mr. Coffin's home was a converted boxcar but a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFHY_clock-park_Minden-NV.html
To recreate turn-of-the-century Minden, local merchants Don and Roxanne Stangle, in 1990, suggested building this park. A beautiful period clock would be its central feature. After seven years of planning and designing the park and raising nearly …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFGG_the-heidlberg_Minden-NV.html
Built in 1910, few buildings in Minden have experienced a more diverse life. Its many uses include a saloon/bar, card parlor, soda fountain, grocery store, and several restaurants.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDRP_minden-park_Minden-NV.html
Built in 1906. the park became the "town square" for the first residential section of Minden. The first bandstand, a rectangular structure, was built in 1914. The present bandstand was built by the Minden Rotary Club in 1984 and dedicated to Wilto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDRE_douglas-county-world-war-ii-memorial_Minden-NV.html
In Commemorationof Douglas County men who gavetheir lives in World War II
Franklin Mack Andrews ● Semore Arnold ● Donald Cornbread ● Giles Cornbread ● Wilber Frank ● Harlan Fricke ● Walter Leehman ● How…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDRB_minden_Minden-NV.html
Minden, the seat of Douglas County since 1916, was named for a town in Westphalia, Germany, where the founder of the D.F. Dangberg Land and Live Stock Company, was born in 1829. The company established Minden in 1905 to provide terminal facilities…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLR_hanging-tree_Minden-NV.html
On this tree, early morning Nov. 26, 1897 occurred the blackest episode in the history of Nevada. Adam Uber of Calaveras Co. Cal. was forcefully taken from jail abused and hanged by an angry mob, for the pistol killing of Hans Anderson a local tea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I8_grace-melissa-dangberg_Minden-NV.html
1896 — 1985
Grace Dangberg was the granddaughter of Heinrick Frederick Dangberg, a pioneer Carson Valley settler from a village near Minden, Germany, whose family founded Minden, Nevada.
Miss Dangberg, a distinguished Nevadan, devote…