Historical Markers of Washoe County & Reno
- HM 4 - Junction House (First Settlement)
- HM 18 - Pyramid Lake
- HM 24 - Olinghouse
- HM 29 - Chinese in Nevada
- HM 30 - Reno
- HM 43 - Derby Diversion Dam
- HM 62 - Truckee River -- West
- HM 63 - Truckee River -- East
- HM 68 - Wadsworth
- HM 79 - Civil War Plot
- HM 81 - Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Tree
- HM 88 - Sparks
- HM 94 - The Winters Ranch (Rancho Del Sierra)
- HM 114 - Franktown
- HM 128 - The Great Train Robbery
- HM 148 - The Two Battles of Pyramid Lake
- HM 149 - High Rock Canyon
- HM 152 - Gerlach
- HM 166 - Bowers Mansion
- HM 169 - Glendale School
- HM 189 - Southern Pacific Railroad Yards
- HM 191 - Verdi
- HM 198 - Steamboat Springs
- HM 210 - Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad Depot
- HM 211 - Old Geiger Grade (In Canyon Below)
- HM 212 - Galena
- HM 218 - Geiger Station (Magnolia House)
- HM 220 - The Fight of the Century
- HM 221 - Sand Harbor
- HM 227 - Lake Mansion
- HM 230 - Mount Rose Weather Observatory
- HM 234 - Moana Springs
- HM 238 - Huffaker's
- HM 240 - Coney Island
- HM 245 - Frederick Joseph DeLongchamps (June 2, 1882 - February 11, 1969)
- HM 246 - The Great Incline of the Sierra Nevada
- HM 247 - Site of Nevada's First Public Library
- HM 248 - Virginia & Truckee Railroad Right of Way
- HM 253 - Emigrant-Donner Camp
- HM 256 - Historic Transportation...
- SHL 265 - Governor Emmet Derby Boyle
- HM 267 - Galena Creek Fish Hatchery
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*HM 68*
-- Wadsworth --
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Location: Eastern Washoe County, Wadsworth
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Description:
Exact description as below...
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Wadsworth began on the railroad, but today, it's only a mere shadow of what it used to be. A sleepy community of only 1,200, the Central Pacific completed a new station in 1882 from its previous site just a few years earlier. The lack of an adequate water supply and extensive fire damage from two earlier fires broke the new Wadsworth station to the town it is today. Today, Wadsworth sits far away from the metropolitan center of Washoe County within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation. Occasionally, a passerby will stop and shoot the breeze with a local, but more than likely... he'll pass right on through, headed for the Interstate. Just remember... it's not dead yet.
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