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Monument to the Donner Party in Donner Memorial State Park. The Donner Party ordeal is arguably Truckee's most famous historical event. In 1846, a group of settlers from Illinois, originally known as the Donner-Reed Party but now usually referred to as the Donner Party, became snowbound in early fall as a result of several trail mishaps, poor decision-making, and an early onset of winter that ...
Once the Central Pacific Railroad was completed through Truckee in 1869, it became one of the city's main economic drivers; the Commercial Row district's businesses mainly catered to workers and travelers on the railroad. The Brickelltown district, meanwhile, housed and served workers in Truckee's other main industry, lumber.
White residents of Truckee, California set fire to two cabins along Trout Creek that housed six Chinese immigrants working as woodcutters approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) northwest of the town; as the woodcutters fled the fires, the Truckee men shot them, killing one and wounding another. Seven men were arrested two months later and tried for arson ...
The Donner Memorial State Park visitor center contains exhibits about the cultural history of the area, including local Native Americans, the Donner Party, and builders of the First transcontinental railroad. Near the museum is the Pioneer Monument and the Donner Party's Murphy family cabin site.
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The Kruger House (or C.B. White House) is a historic building located at 10292 Donner Pass Road, in Truckee, Nevada County, northern California.. The mansion was built in 1873–1874 by W. H. Kruger, who was then a partner in the Truckee Lumber Company.
Donner Lake, formerly known as Truckee Lake, [2] is a freshwater lake in Northeast California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the much larger Lake Tahoe. A moraine serves as a natural dam for the lake.
The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada. The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles (195 km) long. The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles (195 km) long. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada , emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin .