Lakeview

Lakeview stood at the divide between Eagle Valley and Washoe Valley, a working stop on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad as it climbed north toward Reno. It served the line as a water station and a lumber-handling point, the kind of small trackside settlement that kept a railroad running—tanks, sidings, and the men who tended them. Its fortunes rode with the Comstock and the timber trade, and when those wound down the place faded; operations there ended in 1896. The name survives on the rise north of Carson City, where the old grade once crossed.

What the plaque says

As early as 1863, two hotels with appurtenant stables were located here. In 1872, one hotel became a station on the newly-completed Virginia and Truckee Railroad between Carson City and Reno. Crossing under the highway are three inverted siphon pipelines furnishing water from the Sierra Nevada watershed to Virginia and Carson Cities. Work was first undertaken in 1873 on the 76 mile box flume and pipeline system with the construction of a maintenance station here. The Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company's historic water-gathering and transportation complex immediately became world famous. As early as 1881, Lakeview became a lumber storage area for timber cut in the Lake Tahoe Basin. In 1887, shipping activity was accelerated as lumber was fed to the yard by a V-flume originating above present Incline Village. From here timber products were shipped to the Comstock mines and other points via the V.& T.R.R cars. Activity ceased in 1896. State Historical Marker No. 213 Division of Historic Preservation and Archeology Victor O. Goodwin

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carson City — 3.6 mi
  The capital one man platted before there was a territory—where the Comstock's silver became coin at a U.S. Mint and a small sandstone city that has run Nevada ever since
• The Flume Trail & Marlette Lake — 5.8 mi
  The other thing the Comstock took off Lake Tahoe—not its trees but its water, hauled over a mountain range through the highest-pressure pipeline on earth, on a flume grade that is now one of the country's great mountain-bike rides
• Stewart Indian School — 6.7 mi
  The federal boarding school that took Great Basin children from 1890 to 1980 to erase their cultures—its student-built stone campus now a tribally-guided museum telling the story in alumni voices
• Sand Harbor — 6.9 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

• First Air Flight Over Nevada — 1.5 mi
• Camp Nye 1864-1865 — 3.2 mi
• The Governor’s Mansion — 3.2 mi
• Bliss Mansion — 3.3 mi