Glendale School (1864- 1958)

Before Reno won the valley, Glendale expected to. Founded in 1857 as a station and store serving emigrants bound for California, it was one of the earliest settlements in the Truckee Meadows and built this schoolhouse in 1864. Residents believed Glendale would become the area's main town—until the transcontinental railroad bypassed it in 1868 and centered everything on Reno. The town faded, but the school endured, teaching local children until 1958. The 1864 schoolhouse was later moved to Sparks and preserved, one of the oldest surviving school buildings in Nevada.

What the plaque says

Glendale School (1864-1958). "Oldest Remaining School Building in Nevada". Glendale, as a settlement, preceded Reno and was destined to be the metropolis on the Truckee River until the Central Pacific Railroad was induced to bypass the community for a station at Lake's Crossing (Reno). E. C. Sessions, the first teacher, organized the school and taught in his home until this building was constructed in 1864. Archie Bryant built the structure at a cost of $1,446 and it remains as a testament of his craftsmanship. The original Board of Trustees consisted of John F. Stone, William Steele and N. C. Haslund. Over the years a great many Nevadans were educated at the Glendale School. Perhaps the most notable student was U. S. Senator Patrick A. McCarran. The school building was relocated from its original site to this location in 1976.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Reno — 3.2 mi
  The river crossing the Comstock needed, made a city by the railroad—then reinvented as divorce capital, gambling town, and now tech hub: the Biggest Little City in the World
• Virginia City — 17 mi
  The boomtown that sits on top of the richest silver strike in America—fewer than a thousand people now, on streets built for twenty-five thousand
• Chollar Mine — 17 mi
  A real Comstock silver mine you can still walk into—four hundred feet of original timbered tunnel under C Street, where the work that built a state was done by hand, in the dark
• Sand Harbor — 25 mi
  The crown of Lake Tahoe's Nevada shore—car-sized granite boulders standing in water so clear the boats above them seem to float on air, on a beach the Washoe kept for thousands of summers

More markers nearby

• Chinese in Nevada — steps away
• Southern Pacific Railroad Yards — steps away
• Sparks — 0.7 mi
• Coney Island — 1.4 mi