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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UMF_we-made-it-the-end-of-the-great-basin-historical_Minden-NV.html
You're now standing at the western edge of the Great Basin. If you were an emigrant headed to California, you would have entered the Great Basin 450 miles back along the trail in southern Idaho, or 500 miles back in Salt Lake City if you had taken…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UL3_originally-the-raycraft-dance-hall-historical_Minden-NV.html
Built: Spring of 1886 Foundation: Rock
Building Size: 80 x 33 Feet - 16 Foot Ceiling
Flooring: Best Quality Wood Available
Constructed: By the Sons of Joseph Raycraft
Joseph, acting as a wagon master for 300 souls, headed west with his family …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q84_sky-harbor-airport-and-casino_Stateline-NV.html
During the late 1940s, this land was used by Sky Harbor Airport and Casino, which flew its wealthy patrons in from San Francisco to spend money in the local casinos. The airport consisted of a dirt landing strip, but with the snow-crested Crystal …
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/HM11K2_the-history-of-sunset-park_Minden-NV.html
The members of the Minden Town Board selected this site, on the Minden-Gardnerville boundary and adjacent to the telephone company offices, as a particularly appropriate location for what they have named "Sunset Park".
In the early 1900's, Unit…
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/HMV97_the-pony-express_Stateline-NV.html
InCommemoration of The Pony ExpressA fleeting but exciting epoch in theWinning of the West——————Erected April 4, 1963by Harrah'sWilliam F. Harrah, President ——————The first Po…