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Nevada Historic Markers in Washoe County: Franktown

Nevada Historical Marker 114
Franktown
Old US 395 South Near Franktown Road
Franktown

Nevada Historical Marker 114: Franktown in the Washioe Valley
Nevada Historical Marker 114: Franktown in the Washioe Valley

17 March 2016
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Franktown

Orson Hyde, probate judge of Carson County, Utah Territory, founded Franktown in the Wassau (Washoe) Valley in 1855.

A sawmill became an important enterprise in furnishing timber to the Comstock mines after 1859. The Dall Mill, a quartz mill of sixty stamps, employed hundreds of workers. Fertile farms surrounded the town.

With the completion of the railroad from Carson City to Virginia City in 1869, the milling business rapidly lost its importance and the once prosperous town declined.

State Historical Marker No. 114
State Historic Preservation Office

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