Gardnerville, Nevada Relocation Guide
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Population: 18,035 Located in Douglas County
Gardnerville, NevadaEarly Gardnerville served the farming community and teamsters hauling local produce to booming Bodie (Ca.). The first buildings were a blacksmith shop, a saloon and the Gardnerville Hotel. The latter was moved by Lawrence Gilman in 1879 from the emigrant trail between Genoa and Walley's Hot Springs, where it was known as Ken House, to its new site, the homestead of John. M. Gardner. Just as Genoa was the center for British Settlers (mostly Mormon) after 1851, so Gardnerville, after 1879, became the center for the 1870 Danish immigrants. They founded the Valhalla Society in 1885 and met at Valhalla Hall-now gone. The Carson Valley is one of the earliest-settled, richest, and most productive of the state's agricultural regions. In spring, summer, and autumn, when the valley is bursting with life, the vast irrigated tracts are a green velvet patchwork quilt upon which the stacks of baled hay stand like giant cheeses, and cottonwoods and poplars rise up like flashing green flames. The meadows are sopped with water from the Sierra, fat and languid cattle browse placidly everywhere. Gardnerville is a farm town established in the 1860s to serve the agricultural population in a more conveniently central location than longer-established Genoa at the foot of the Sierra. Minden is the railroad's child, born in 1905 as a planned and platted subdivision with a brick depot, a central park and a grid of quiet streets. Two near neighbors along the east side of Main Street epitomize the changes that have transformed Minden and Gardnerville over the past generation. Bently Nevada supplies the world market with vibration monitoring equipment from its headquarters in the old Minden Creamery. In 1964, Bently was the first high-profile, high-tech company to relocate from California to Nevada. A slow migration of these companies continues, as at the same time Tahoe casino workers, unable to afford life at the Lake, have spilled down the Kingsbury Grade to buy houses in the Gardnerville Ranchos. These new populations of well-paid, well-educated people have remade the character of the Carson Valley. The transformation is typified by the Carson Valley Inn a short distance away, a modern new hotel, with highly manicured casino, meeting rooms and gourmet restaurant. Courtesy of the Carson Valley Chamber of Commerce |
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