Not exclusively south county history but you may find these items interesting nonetheless.
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A Sketch of Washoe Valley History
Natural History
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Mystery of the Pine Nuts
“One of the most lurid mystery dramas to come out of the West.” was how the San Francisco Examiner reported it on its front page on April…
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Washoe Valley’s “D.B. Cooper”
By Rick Cooper
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Jumbo Ghost Town
Washoe Valley, Nevada
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Bowers Mansion- A tale of the Comstock
Readers today may be experts on Nevada History and the Comstock, some may never have heard of it. Keeping that in mind, I will try to tell…
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Who Was Kay Martin of the Kay Martin Lodge?
By Richard Cooper, January 20, 2021
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What’s Up With That Cabin In Washoe City?
Have you ever driven by this old, dilapidated cabin in Washoe City along Old Hwy 395 and wondered about it? It’s located in front of the Canine Rehabilitation Center at 555 US 395 North. Almost totally obscured now by vegetation and surrounded by a chain link fence it has been
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Washoe Valley and the House of Lords
This started out as a story of a prominent Washoe Valley resident of days gone by but it also ended up as a tale of historical research. I was rummaging the local papers of 1933-1970 and came with a variety of contradictory snippets of information. Very frustrating and I wondered
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More to come...