Twelve Mile House
Location: Central Douglas County, Carson Valley
Directions: Along US 395, 6 miles south of Gardnerville
N 38° 54.307 W 119° 42.385"
Location: 2
Visibility: 1
Accessibility: 1
Marker type: St (L)
Date Conquered: 8/24/07
Quick Description: A marker commemorating another stage stop along the Boyd Toll Road.
Signed: Yes -- Dual signed with [131], signed on both lanes of US 395
Full Description:
Exact description as reads ...
[125] is one of only a handful of Nevada markers with a mapped plaque -- a marker rarity!
An important hostelry was so named because of its distance from Genoa and also from Cradlebaugh Bridge across the Carson River. It was built in 1860 by Thomas Wheeler where the Boyd Toll Road to Genoa and the Cradlebaugh Toll Road to Carson City converged. In this vicinity, a second station was built by James Teasdale.
Twelve Mile House was an important stop on the road to the Esmeralda mining camp of Aurora.
You will see buildings of the original station here.
Shared real-estate!
Both [125] and [131] share the same location. This is very rare in Nevada to have two historical markers located at the same spot.
This marker suffers from poor placement on behalf of the SHPO. The structure in the b.g is the Washo Tribe Headquarters which is technically private property.
