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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24XW_lake-tahoe_Tahoe-City-CA.html
Native people first lived along Lake Tahoe's shoreline over 9,000 years ago when retreating glaciers blocked most corridors to the lake.
Lake Tahoe came to be the center of traditional Washoe life. Their legends describe every aspect of the lan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24WY_a-tradition-of-basketmaking_Tahoe-City-CA.html
Basketmaking is a tradition of the Washoe people of the Breat Basin that dates back thousands of years. Different types of baskets were made for holding water and cooking, winnowing seeds and nuts, collecting and storing food, catching fish and ca…
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Just as you may have come to fish these waters today, so have native people for thousands of years. Natives of the Tahoe Sierra fished the waters from Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River and Pyramid Lake for food. Depending on the season, they pulled…
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Trails become roads around Lake Tahoe
Early travel in the Lake Tahoe basin was along Washoe Indian trails and later along American immigrant trails blazed in the 1840s over the rugged Sierra Nevada Mountain passes. The first roads in the region…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24VE_development-conflict_Tahoe-City-CA.html
In the 1890s, the decline in silver mining on the Comstock in Nevada reduced the demand for lumber from the Lake Tahoe basin. Local businessman Duane L. Bliss, owner of Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company, recognized a new business opportu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24UJ_trains-and-tourists_Tahoe-City-CA.html
In the years before automobiles and paved highways, local businessman D. L. Bliss needed a way to bring people to his new Tahoe Tavern hotel. He formed the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company to build and operate a railroad connection be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24TQ_conflict-over-water_Tahoe-City-CA.html
Controlling the flow of water through Lake Tahoe's Truckee River outlet
The Donner Lumber and Boom Company built the first dam across the Truckee River outlet in Tahoe City in 1872. Water released through the dam controlled the flow of logs to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W5G_grand-central-hotel-historical_Tahoe-City-CA.html
Called the finest establishment between San Francisco and Virgina City, this elegant three and a half story resort signified the start of North Tahoe's tourist industry. Terminal for the Tahoe-Truckee Flyer Stage Line And host To the lake's steams…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11JW_tahoe-citys-constables_Tahoe-City-CA.html
In 1901 Tahoe City needed a constable. There was an influx of workers and summer visitors expected with the completion of a 15-mile railroad line from Truckee and the opening of the 400-room hotel, The Tahoe Tavern. Robert Montgomery Watson, an ac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP1C_olympic-silver-1956-to-1971_Tahoe-City-CA.html
News that the 1960 Winter Olympics were coming to tiny Squaw Valley and to Lake Tahoe's West Shore marked a milestone in Tahoe City development. All at once Lake Tahoe became known world-wide. Many new facilities were built for the Olympics, with …