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Trout Creek is a small tributary of the Truckee River draining about 5.1 square miles (13 km 2) along the eastern crest of the Sierra Nevada.It originates east of Donner Ridge and north of Donner Lake in the Tahoe–Donner Golf Course and flows through the town of Truckee, California, to its confluence with the Truckee River in Nevada County, California, just west of Highway 267.
Truckee reportedly had one of the nation's first mechanized ski lifts at the site of the Hilltop Lodge. [13] The historic Hilltop Lodge was converted to a restaurant in the 1940s by the Crandall Brothers, and eventually became Cottonwood Restaurant and Bar. [14] There were possibly two rope tows and a Poma lift, which was installed in 1954. [15]
The wastewater had been flowing for years into Reno's main water source, the Truckee River, posing a potential health risk. [48] The resort began paying up to $500 daily to have the sewage hauled by tanker truck to a sewage treatment plant. As a result of these expenditures, [49] [50] the River Inn filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 1978 ...
The restaurant originated with a Reno location, the Peppermill Coffee Shop and Lounge, in 1971. It was opened by Nat Carasali and Bill Paganetti, who later converted the restaurant into the Peppermill Reno resort. [6] [7] The Peppermill restaurant in the Las Vegas Valley opened on December 26, 1972. [6] It was built along the northern Las Vegas ...
The Swansea Mill [14] milled ores from Treasure City and Hamilton. [8] At the peak of the Treasure Hill boom, the residents of Swansea thought that larger mills would soon need to be built and that the main street of Swansea would need to be extended to Shermantown (less than 1 mile (1.6 km) away.
Starting from the outlet gates at Lake Tahoe stretching about 3 miles (4.8 km), the run ends at the River Ranch Restaurant. These rapids are almost all class 1 and class 2. In downtown Reno the river has been sculpted into a half-mile Class 2/3 whitewater park, and is used mainly for kayaking. [26] The Truckee River is western Nevada's largest ...
Distribution of total and methylmercury in sediments along Steamboat Creek (Nevada, USA) Jelena Stamenkovica, Mae S Gustina, Mark C Marvin-DiPasqualeb, Beth A Thomasa, Jennifer L Ageeb Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences, MS 370, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, US Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, MS 480, 345 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park, CA Received 8 June 2003 ...
Paul Laveaga, one of Unionville's more prominent citizens, was born in Mexico in 1841. He was the only member of his family to leave Mexico for Nevada. When he came to the state in 1866, he worked for wages and mined in Unionville. In 1868, Laveaga opened up a lodging house and restaurant which he ran until 1884 when he left for Winnemucca.