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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RQB_junction-house_Reno-NV.html
Here was located one of the busiest crossroads of pioneer Nevada, converging point for many major toll roads of the area. The earliest emigrants from the east crossed through Truckee Meadows at this point and by 1853 the intersection was known as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RQ5_mizpah-hotel_Reno-NV.html
Built in 1922 by the Pincolini brothers Joseph, Adelvaldo, Evaristo and Dante.
Listed in the National Register of Historical Places, it served the community well for eighty four years.
Destroyed by fire on October 31, 2006
In remembrance …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RQ0_the-winters-ranch_New-Washoe-City-NV.html
This large carpenter-gothic style structure, completed about 1864, was the ranch home of Theodore and Maggie Winters and their seven children. Originally this area was settled by Mormons, and the ranch was purchased from Mormons by Winters and his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RPZ_winters-ranch_New-Washoe-City-NV.html
This is Rancho del Sierra, home of the Winters family from 1858 to 1953. The estate once covered six thousand acres of the surrounding property and included an orchard, horse race track and extensive livestock herds. The house was built by Theodor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RPY_franktown_New-Washoe-City-NV.html
Orson Hyde, probate judge of Carson County, Utah Territory, founded Franktown in the Wassau (Washoe) Valley in 1855.
A sawmill became an important enterprise in furnishing timber to the Comstock mines after 1859. The Dall Mill, a quartz mill of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RPX_glendale-school-1864-1958_Sparks-NV.html
Glendale, as a settlement, preceded Reno and was destined to be the metropolis on the Truckee River until the Central Pacific Railroad was induced to bypass the community for a station at Lake's Crossing (Reno).
E. C. Sessions, the first teache…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RPW_galena_Reno-NV.html
Galena had a dual personality. It was developed in 1860 as a mining property by R. S. and Andrew Hatch. The Hatch brothers' quartz mill and smelter were among the earliest erected on this side of the Sierras. The gold float from the local mines co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ROK_grand-army-of-the-republic-cemetery_Reno-NV.html
In 1890 General O.M. Mitchel Post #69, Grand Army of the Republic, bought 17 lots in the original Hillside Cemetery for the last resting place for comrades-in-arms during the Civil War, 1861-1865.
While friends and relatives of the soldiers mai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OJC_bowers-mansion_New-Washoe-City-NV.html
Bowers Mansion is another reminder of the Comstock Bonanza. Lemuel S. "Sandy" & Eilley Orrum Bowers were probably the first millionaires produced by the fabulous find in Gold Canyon.As strangers, they had adjoining claims. After a rich vein was st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H1O_major-general-jesse-lee-reno_Reno-NV.html
Lake's Crossing, a growing community along the Truckee River in Northern Nevada, was parceled into a proper town site by the Central Pacific Railroad. The railroad named the town Reno, to HonorMajor General Jesse Lee Reno.
Born April 20, 1823 in …