In El Dorado County there were, at one time or another, over 100 post offices with some 120 different names. Some had a short life and some apparently never even existed at all, although history books make reference to them.…
Month: April 2014
Lake Tahoe – “The Lake of the Sky,” Part VIII – The Sailboats Arrive
The first visitors to the Tahoe Basin, the Native Americans, probably did not venture far out on to the lake in boats. Neither did the early explorers and mountain men. There was no need to do so, since there was…
Lake Tahoe – “The Lake of the Sky,” Part VII – The Basin Begins to Fill
There was only one road that entered the southern end of the Tahoe Basin from Sacramento and Placerville. However, once it entered, it split into two roads just east of Yank’s Station. One branch passed along the southern end of…
Lake Tahoe – “The Lake of the Sky, “Part VI – The “Yanks” are Coming
In 1868 the tracks of the Central Pacific Railroad reached Truckee. From there a narrow gauge railroad, built from the remnants of the lumber railroads that had proliferated in the Tahoe Basin during the lumbering years, connected it to Tahoe…