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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/HME0O_rinckle-mansion_Carson-City-NV.html
Completed in 1876, this palatial residence represents one of the finest and best preserved examples of High Victorian Italianate architecture remaining in the American West.
Charles H. Jones, a French-schooled designer, constructed the residenc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME0N_genoa-church_Genoa-NV.html
Built by volunteers to replace the church destroyed in the Terrible Fire of 1910, this pioneer refuge served the town for town meetings as well as church services for many years. The bell tower and porch were added in 1978 by volunteers.Genoa Hist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME0J_methodist-church-of-carson-city_Carson-City-NV.html
Dedicated in 1867, this church serves a congregation that was organized in 1859 and is often referred to as the "Cradle of Nevada Methodism". Like many other buildings in Carson City, the stone used in its construction was quarried at the nearby S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME01_old-mormon-station_Carson-City-NV.html
The principle emigrant trail to California's gold fields in the 1850's passed about 50 yards east of here. In June, 1850, Hampton S. Beatie and Abner Blackburn, two Mormons from Salt Lake City, established Nevada's first trading post a few yards f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZU_st-peters-episcopal-church_Carson-City-NV.html
Construction of this graceful reminder of the churches of old New England began in October 1867. Work was completed in July 1868 at a cost of $5,500.
The church was first occupied by its congregation on Sunday, August 9, 1868, with the Reverend…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDUP_glenbrook_Glenbrook-NV.html
Lumbering operations in the Glenbrook area of Lake Tahoe began in 1861. Consolidation of V-Flume systems in and near Clear Creek Canyon by 1872 made it possible to float lumber, cordwood, and sawed material from Spooner's Summit to Carson City and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDSH_gardners-ranch_Carson-City-NV.html
On this site in the period from 1870 until 1918 stood the ornate two-story home of Mathew Culbertson Gardner, rancher and lumberman. The residence was headquarters for Gardner's 300 acre ranch in Meadows to the Southward.
Here was located, 1870…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDSA_charles-w-friend-house-observatory-and-weather-station_Carson-City-NV.html
This is the site of the house and observatory of Nevada's first weatherman, astronomer, and seismologist, Charles William Friend. Born in Prussia in 1835, Friend immigrated by way of South America to California during the 1849 Gold Rush. In 1867, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDS3_carson-city_Carson-City-NV.html
Nevada's State Capital, one of the state's oldest communities, was established in 1851 as Eagle Station, a trading post and ranch on the Carson Branch of the California Immigrant Trail, by Frank and Warren L. Hall, George Follansbee, Joe and Frank…