Historical Markers of Carson City
Location: Carson City Directions: At intersection of Carson (SR 529) and Stewart Sts. (In front of U.S. Forest Service Office of Carson City)
N 39° 09.180 W 119° 46.030
Date Conquered: 6/10/07 Nearest Intersection: Stewart St (SR 520) Quick Description: This marker goes hand-in-hand with [193], noting the home of Matthew Gardner, the man in charge of the Carson Sawmill. Signed: Yes -- Severely faded but signed on both lanes of Carson Street. The northbound sign is badly placed south of the intersection with Fairview Drive. This means that if marker hunters aren't paying attention, they could be driven to turn onto Fairview rather than continuing straight ahead. Better placement would be to place the sign north of this intersection. Full Description: Exact description as reads ... 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 the meadows to the southwest. Here was located, 1870-1898, the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company's large lumberyard. During the 1870's and 1880's, 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 and his residence was destroyed by a fire August 20, 1918. Many of the old trees on the ground once shaded the grounds of the Gardner family.
Full Description: Exact description as reads ... 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 the meadows to the southwest. Here was located, 1870-1898, the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company's large lumberyard. During the 1870's and 1880's, 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 and his residence was destroyed by a fire August 20, 1918. Many of the old trees on the ground once shaded the grounds of the Gardner family.
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 the meadows to the southwest. Here was located, 1870-1898, the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company's large lumberyard. During the 1870's and 1880's, 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 and his residence was destroyed by a fire August 20, 1918. Many of the old trees on the ground once shaded the grounds of the Gardner family.
Here was located, 1870-1898, the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company's large lumberyard. During the 1870's and 1880's, 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 and his residence was destroyed by a fire August 20, 1918. Many of the old trees on the ground once shaded the grounds of the Gardner family.
Gardner died in 1908 and his residence was destroyed by a fire August 20, 1918. Many of the old trees on the ground once shaded the grounds of the Gardner family.
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