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RenoTahoe history
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Reno began as the preferred crossing point of the Truckee River, an inland river that flows west to east from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake, for travelers on their way to the California gold rush of the late 1840's and 50's.
Long before Lake Tahoe’s non-native discovery in 1844, Native Americans camped, hunted and fished in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
The discovery of gold in 1848 played an integral part in the modern-day settlement of Northern Nevada and the Reno-Tahoe Territory.
Along the Carson Route in 1851, a group of Mormon travelers established a trading post in current day Genoa (located in Carson Valley) in order to provide goods for weary travelers.
From 1859 to the turn of the century, Carson City was a thriving commercial center.
With the discovery of the Comstock Lode in the nearby Virginia City foothills in 1859, the river crossing became increasingly important for the growing trade in mining and agriculture.
Reno’s first settler was C.W. Fuller, who built a toll bridge of logs across the river about 1860.
Nevada was one of 69 land-grant colleges established under the Morrill Act of 1862, and, as such, initially emphasized a curriculum of agriculture, mining, and mechanic arts.
The Central Pacific Railroad arrived in the area in 1863 and connected the city with the Virginia & Truckee Railroad out of Virginia City, followed by the Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad.
The site was acquired by M.C. Lake in 1863 and was called Lake’s Crossing.
When the Central Pacific Railroad reached the site in 1868, a land auction was held, and homes were built almost overnight.
Reno was officially established in 1868, the same year that the transcontinental railroad, which paralleled the Truckee River, reached the town.
The University of Nevada was established as a college preparatory school in Elko in 1874.
Until 1900 Reno served primarily as a distribution point, but, after several well-known people were granted divorces or were quickly married there under liberal state laws, the city became famous as a busy divorce and marriage centre.
A mining boom that commenced in southwestern Nevada in 1900 gave the state an economic shot in the arm.
Reno-Tahoe International Airport was built in 1929, originally named Hubbard Field, after Eddie Hubbard, VP and Operations Manager of Boeing Air Transport.
When gambling was legalized in Nevada (1931), Reno began to attract tourists to its many casinos.
Reno-Stead Airport began in 1942 as the Reno Army Airport, and air base built by the Army Air Corps.
In 1951 the air base was renamed Stead Army Airbase in honor of Croston Stead, who dies while engaging in a mock dog fight in his P-51 Mustang.
The Las Vegas branch was founded as a formal division of the university in 1957.
In 1966 the Stead Army Airbase was transferred to the City of Reno, and in June of 1966 it began operating as Reno-Stead Airport.
In 1985 the school was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District and is currently managed by the State of Nevada.
The airport was named Reno-Tahoe International Airport in 1994, with the terminal building named after United States Senator Howard.
Reno-Tahoe International Airport was proud to celebrate 75 Years of Service in November 2003.
In July 2005 the name was changed to Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority.
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