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Incline Village , California - History
Developers and the business of real estate at Lake Tahoe is a relatively new phenomenon compared with the 9,000 years and more than 400 generations the Washo tribe settled at camps at Incline Village, Spooner Lake and Skunk Harbor.
For many years, summers meant creating conical shaped homes from cedar bark that would last long enough for the summer's fishing and hunting season to replenish the food supply and provide skins for clothing.
John C. Fremont was the first European explorer to record the sighting of Lake Tahoe, in Feb. 1844. His exploration party was guided by the legendary Kit Carson. Lake Tahoe became a bustling center of commerce in the 1860s during the height of silver mining in Virginia City. The Central Pacific Railroad extended to Truckee.
In the summer of 1873, Walter Scott Hobert had established the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Co. In September 1880 and by October, he had completed a stream-powered sawmill half a mile from the lake in the area known now as Millcreek. By fall, 1897, Incline Village was nothing but stripped forest land.
George Whittell purchase in the 1930s of 44,000 acres of Nevada land ensured that Tahoe's north shore would not become a commercial wasteland.
The first influx of settlers made their homes at Crystal Bay in the 1860s. The Ta-Neva-Ho (now the Cal-Neva) Crystal Bay's first casino, was built in 1927 by developer Bob Sherman. In 1946 Joseph Blumenfeld built the Tahoe Biltmore Hotel.
The Crystal Bay Development Co. took off after the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley. Ray Plunkett, along with Harold Tiller, Arthur Wood and Matt McCoskey, principal owner of the Cal-Neva, took over ownership when current owner Frank Sinatra lost his gaming license because of a mob connection.
Incline Village was formed in about 1960, and since then, land has been built to capacity, leaving few buildable lots remaining at the turn of the 21st century.
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