Home Ranch - Minden, NV
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N 38° 56.863 W 119° 47.318
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The Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park site was one of the first large ranching operations in Nevada. Currently 5.5 acres of the ranch are owned by Douglas County & operated as a museum. Tours are available year round, reservations required.
Waymark Code: WMK0QC
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 01/26/2014
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Heinrich F. Dangberg, a young German immigrant, came to the Carson Valley in 1856. He cleared the sagebrush for a log cabin and with hard work he and his descendants created a ranching empire that came to include 48,000 acres. In 1905, the family founded the town of Minden. The story of the four generations who lived at the Home Ranch provides a fascinating glimpse into Carson Valley's ranching heritage and the lives of its most influential family.
The site includes several historic structures that were built between 1857 and 1917. The two ornamental brick gate columns, designed by noted Nevada Architect Frederic DeLongchamps, was once the original grand entrance to the Dangberg ranch house with it's twelve Doric columns. The Stone Cellar, made of Warm Springs quarried stone, kept perishables cold with it's unique foundation vents. Other original structures at the park are a laundry building, carriage house, garage, bunkhouse and a pump house which supplies the ranch house with water.
Access to the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park is off Highway 88, (N38 56.882 W119 47.387) not Muller Lane, follow the dirt road to the fenced area with the main residence structure. Leave gates as you find them (open or closed). Please respect the surrounding property, Barn and Brick Slaughter house, do not enter those nearby historic structures as they are privately owned. They may be photographed from a distance.
Street address:
1450 Highway 88
Minden, NV United States
89423
County / Borough / Parish: Douglas County
Year listed: 1980
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Person, Architecture/Engineerig
Periods of significance: 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Historic function: Agriculture/Subsistence, Domestic
Current function: Agriculture/Subsistence
Privately owned?: yes
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
Please give the date and brief account of your visit. Include any additional observations or information that you may have, particularly about the current condition of the site. Additional photos are highly encouraged, but not mandatory.