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A South Lake Tahoe nonprofit, Locals for Affordable Housing, has collected enough signatures to place a measure on the November ballot that aims to tax property owners between $3,000 and $6,000 ...
There was a difference in population based on the 2020 United States Census, which reported that South Lake Tahoe had a decrease in population from 21,403 in 2010 to the most recent census, of July 2020 to 21,175 inhabitants. [11] South Lake Tahoe education rate from 2017-2021, high school graduates or higher, 87.0% of persons age 25 years+. [11]
The Pope Estate is a historic home located in Camp Richardson, near South Lake Tahoe, California. The home was originally built by Lloyd Tevis, former president of Wells Fargo Bank , in the 1880s. The Tevis and Pope families used the home and grounds as a summer vacation spot.
One point of interest along California State Route 89 includes the Pony Express remount station in Woodfords, the Lake Tahoe Outlet Gates in Tahoe City (control of these gates was the source of the two-decade "Tahoe Water War" between lakeshore owners and downstream Truckee River water users), Plumas-Eureka State Park (containing Johnsville, a ...
Earlier (in 1904), a post office opened south of the station. [4] The post office closed in 1957, only to reopen in 1958. [4] It was adjacent to the Lincoln Highway Sierra Nevada Southern Route by 1916, and was renamed Tahoe Paradise in 1962. [4] By 1896, a railroad had been connected that ran up Lake Valley from a landing in Bijou. [7]
From 1942 through July 1944, during World War II, the airfield at Twentynine Palms was utilized by the U.S. Army Air Force for primary flight training. What is now the "Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center" was taken over by the Eleventh Naval District, headquartered in San Diego, as Naval Auxiliary Air Station Twentynine Palms, in July 1944.
Stateline (formerly Lakeside and Laphams) [2] [3] is a former unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, now incorporated into South Lake Tahoe, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 6,279 feet (1914 m) ASL. [1] As its name suggests, it is at the state line with Nevada, and mirrors the adjacent community of the same name.