Dresslerville
Location: Southern Carson Valley
Directions: Along US 395, 6 miles south of Gardnerville
N 38° 54.256 W 119° 42.360
Location: 2
Visibility: 1
Accessibility: 1
Marker type: St (L)
Date Conquered: 8/24/07
Quick Description: A marker remembering the people and tales of the Washo.
Signed: Yes -- Dual signed with [125], signed on both lanes of US 395.
Full Description:
Exact description as reads ...
In 1917 State Senator William F. Dressler gave this 40-acre tract to Washo Indians, then living on ranches in Carson Valley. After a school was opened in 1924, it became a nucleus of settlement.
Before the intrusion of Caucasians in 1848, Washo lived in winter in the Pinenut Hills where they stored autumn harvested pinenuts. In summer, they lived in the Lake Tahoe Basin fishing the tributary streams and gathering roots and berries. In fall, they hunted jackrabbits and gathered seeds in Carson Valley.
Their only form of organization was that of kinship.
These stone age people lived in daily communion with giants, monsters, animals whose characteristics were interchangeable with those of people, and with water babies, "having the bodies of old men and the long hair of girls," who lived in the lakes of the High Sierra.
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.
Dresslerville, within the Washo Indian Reservation, is just a few miles due southwest in the b.g.
