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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDRR_kit-carson-1843-44_Carson-City-NV.html
Unveiled June 10, 1989Artist: Buckeye BlakeIt was the winter of 1843-44 when Kit Carson along with the John C. Fremont expedition worked his way south from Pyramid Lake looking for an easy route across the Sierra Nevada. Carson, depicted here trac…
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/HMDR9_abraham-van-santvoord-curry_Carson-City-NV.html
Abraham Curry, the "Father of Carson City", accomplished more in his 15 year residence than most men hope to in a lifetime. Not only did he purchase the land in 1858 which is now Carson City, but laid out the townsite and built many of its buildin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPM_nevadas-capitol_Carson-City-NV.html
Completed in 1871, Nevada's splendid Victorian Capitol was built of sandstone from the quarry of the town's founder, Abe Curry. The octagon annex was added in 1907, the north and south wings in 1915. Notable features are its Alaskan marble walls, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPG_nevada-state-childrens-home_Carson-City-NV.html
The Nevada Orphan's Asylum, a privately funded institution, was opened in Virginia City May 1867 by Sister Frederica McGrath and two other nuns of the Sisters of Charity. By 1870, most of its functions were taken over by the Nevada Orphans' Home a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPE_historic-flume-and-lumberyard_Carson-City-NV.html
Approximately one-half mile south of this point and west of the present highway lay the immense lumberyard of the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company, the greatest of the Comstock lumbering combines operating in the Lake Tahoe Basin during 187…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPC_eagle-valley_Carson-City-NV.html
Centrally located between the first Nevada settlement at Genoa and the precious metal deposits of the Comstock Lode, Eagle Valley, site of present Carson City, was a vital link in land communications.
One of the key California emigrant routes, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPB_dat-so-la-lee_Carson-City-NV.html
"Myriads of Stars shine over the graves of our ancestors." Dat-So-La-Lee had seen some 96 winters, mostly in Carson Valley, when death came in 1925.
She was the last of those Washoe weavers whose ancient art had been practiced by countless gene…