 Dresslerville - Dresslerville, NV
Posted by: saopaulo1
N 38° 54.256 W 119° 42.360
11S E 265348 N 4309634
A plaque for the community of Dresslerville.
Waymark Code: WMBEQY
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 05/12/2011
Views: 14
The plaque is along Hway 395 as you leave Gardnerville.
"In 1917 State Senator William F. Dressler gave this 40-acre tract to Washo Indians, then living on ranches in Carson Valley. After a school was opened in 1924, it became a nucleus of settlement.
Before the intrusion of Caucasians in 1848, Washo lived in winter in the Pinenut Hills where they stored autumn harvested pinenuts. In summer, they lived in the Lake Tahoe Basin fishing the tributary streams and gathering roots and berries. In fall, they hunted jackrabbits and gathered seeds in Carson Valley.
Their only form of organization was that of kinship.
These stone age people lived in daily communion with giants, monsters, animals whose characteristics were interchangeable with those of people, and with water babies, "having the bodies of old men and the long hair of girls," who lived in the lakes of the High Sierra."
Marker Title (required): Dresslerville
 Marker Number (If official State Marker from NV SHPO website above, otherwise leave blank): 131
 Marker Text (required): In 1917 State Senator William F. Dressler gave this 40-acre tract to Washo Indians, then living on ranches in Carson Valley. After a school was opened in 1924, it became a nucleus of settlement.
Before the intrusion of Caucasians in 1848, Washo lived in winter in the Pinenut Hills where they stored autumn harvested pinenuts. In summer, they lived in the Lake Tahoe Basin fishing the tributary streams and gathering roots and berries. In fall, they hunted jackrabbits and gathered seeds in Carson Valley.
Their only form of organization was that of kinship.
These stone age people lived in daily communion with giants, monsters, animals whose characteristics were interchangeable with those of people, and with water babies, "having the bodies of old men and the long hair of girls," who lived in the lakes of the High Sierra.
 County (required): Douglas
 Marker Type (required): Full Size (with blue painted mesh)
 Is Marker Damaged? (required): No
 Other Marker Type (optional): Not listed
 Other Damage Type (optional): Not listed
 URL - Website (optional): Not listed

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