Duane Leroy Bliss and Elizabeth Tobey Bliss - Lake Tahoe, CA
N 38° 58.671 W 120° 06.170
10S E 750971 N 4318311
This citizen memorial is located at the entrance to the D.L. Bliss State Park.
Waymark Code: WMTQVC
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/31/2016
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Located at the entrance to a parking lot of the D.L. Bliss State Park and on a large, granite boulder is a metal plaque that reads:
| D.L. BLISS STATE PARK COMMEMORATING TWO PIONEERS OF THE WEST
WHO HAD THE VISION
TO PRESERVE THE NATIVE LANDSCAPE OF THE TAHOE REGION DUANE LEROY BLISS AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH TOBEY BLISS
JUNE 10 1833 - DEC. 23 1907 APRIL 3 1840 - APRIL 5 1921
IDENTIFIED WITH TAHOE FROM 1871 |
Duane Leroy Bliss was a major land and timber owner and owned a lumber company which logged millions of board feet of timber from the Lake Tahoe region in the mid-to-late 1800s. He later opened a resort for tourism and donated some of his land to the State of California which named D. L. Bliss State Park in his honor.