Guest Column by Washoe Valley resident Gayle Bowers Editors Note: Dog Rock is located on the south side of Eastlake Blvd near South Beach at Washoe Lake. Slide Mountain has been known to have landslides reported in the local press press since the 1860s and probably many times before that.

The Washoe City cemetery at the corner of Joy Lake Rd and Old US 395 in Washoe City is one of the last remnants of Washoe City that was once the biggest town in Washoe County in the 1860s. By the 1870s the town was already in decline and the