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| Landmark #194 | Carson City | Visited: July 12, 2015 | Plaque? YES! 🙂 |
| What is it? | A big, Nevada-shaped plaque! |
| What makes it historical? | THE PLAQUE SAYS: On this site in the period from 1870 until 1918 stood the ornate two-story home of Matthew Culbertson Gardner, rancher and lumberman. The residence was headquarters for Gardner’s 300-acre ranch in meadows to the southward.
Here was located, 1870-1898, the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company’s large lumberyard. During the 1870s and 1880s, Gardner logged south of Lake Tahoe for the company and built the only standard-gauge logging railroad in the Tahoe Basin. He maintained his home here. Gardner died in 1908. The residence was destroyed by fire on August 20, 1918. Many of the old trees on the ground once shaded the Gardner family home. OTHER TIDBITS: That pretty well sums it up! |
| How can I Help the Helpers? | HERE’S HOW:
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| How do I find it? | Listed Directions: Along U.S. Highway 395 At the south edge of Carson City, NV 89701 Annotations: From Carson City: ~0mi (0km) — 0hrs |
| When should I go? | Whenever the mood strikes you! |