Sheridan

Sheridan was settled around 1854 by Moses Job, an irrepressible character who climbed the peak above town, planted an American flag, and named the mountain after himself—Job's Peak still carries the name, flanked by Job's Canyon and Job's Sister. The little settlement was one of the early Carson Valley farm communities where emigrants stopped for produce from the region's first gardens. It once styled itself a metropolis; today the old Sheridan House, a former boarding place since converted to a dwelling, is about all that remains of it along the valley's western edge.

What the plaque says

In 1861, a blacksmith shop, a store, a boarding house, and two saloons comprised the village of Sheridan. The village had grown up around Moses Job’s General Store, established prior to 1855. The Surveyor General, in his 1889-90 biennial report, stated that Sheridan was the metropolis of the Carson River West Fork farmers. The Sheridan House, erstwhile boarding adobe, has been converted to a dwelling. It may be seen across the road. It is all that remains of the “metropolis”. Moses Job, an irrepressible man, climbed the peak above you, planted the American Flag and with a shout named the peak after himself! You are looking into Job’s Canyon . To the left is Job’s Peak. To its right is Job’s Sister. State Historic Marker No. 122 Nevada State Park System Carson Valley Historical Society.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Genoa — 7.2 mi
  Nevada's oldest town—a California Trail trading post and Carson Valley ranch country that came eight years before the silver and quietly outlasted it
• Cave Rock / De'ek Wadapush — 12 mi
  One of the most sacred places of the Wašiw—the Standing Gray Rock, a worn volcano the highway was blasted through and climbers bolted for sport, now closed and quiet again after the Washoe's long fight to protect it
• Glenbrook & Spooner Summit — 14 mi
  Lake Tahoe's east shore, where the basin was logged nearly clean to timber the Comstock—the forest that paid for the silver, and the century it has spent growing back
• Stewart Indian School — 15 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

More markers nearby

• Mottsville — 2.2 mi
• Luther Canyon (Fay Canyon) — 2.3 mi
• Kingsbury Grade — 4.5 mi
• Minden — 4.9 mi