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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/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/HMEGJ_kingsbury-grade_Gardnerville-NV.html
Dagget Pass Trail, named for C.D. Dagget, who acquired land at its foot in 1854, was earlier called Georgetown Trail. Replaced in 1860 by the wagon road built by Kingsbury and McDonald, for which they received a Territorial Franchise in 1861, it s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME26_sheridan_Gardnerville-NV.html
In 1861, a blacksmith shop, a store, a boarding house, and two saloons comprised the village of Sheridan. The village had grown up around Moses Job's General Store, established prior to 1855.
The Surveyor General, in his 1889-90 biennial report…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDMT_mormon-station-genoa_Gardnerville-NV.html
In early June, 1850, a party of Mormons led by Abner and Thomas Blackburn, Hampton S. Beatie and Joseph Dumont, established a trading post about a mile to the north of this site. In September, as they returned to Salt Lake City, a party of Bannock…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDMJ_mormon-station_Gardnerville-NV.html
In 1851 Col. John Reese, with a little band of eighteen men crossed the great deserts and built the first trading post in Nevada, "Mormon Station". Later came more members of the Mormon Faith who settled and established the town of Genoa. Among th…