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  History of Reno, Nevada, USA

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• 1868 - May 9 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
  
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• 1869 - an earthquake shook Reno
  
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•  1879 - RAGING FIRE.
  Reno, Nev. - A fire broke out at Reno last Sunday morning, and in three hours all the business part of the town was in ashes, the only houses escaping being the Masonic building with Hagerman & Schooling's grocery store on the first floor, and John Larcombes.
  
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•  1889 - A BIG BLAZE. Reno Gets Another Scorching by Fire. Property to the Value of $20,000 Goes Up in Smoke - Insured for About Half.
  This morning about 1 o'clock a fire broke out in or near the tea store of Rother Bros., near the corner of Second and Sierra streets, and in the rear of the Gazette office.
  
  Dick Nash was the first to turn in a general alarm, and the fire department was soon on the ground. But before water was...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1890 - Three Miles to Go - Then the Central Pacific Railroad will be Clear if the Falling Snow does not Block it Again.
  SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Jan. 30. The following despatch was received from Truckee this morning:
  
  Cascade Cut was opened yesterday morning by five hundred snow shovellers, raising the blockade from tunnel 13, westward. A wooden plough with seven engines started west from Truckee at nine o'clock,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Reno
  Reno, a post-village, capital of Washoe co, Nevada, on the Truckee River and on the Central Pacific Railroad, 149 miles N.E. of Sacramento, Cal., about 20 miles direct of 51 miles by rail N.W. of Virginia City, and 3 mile E, of the Sierra Nevada. It has 2 banks, 5 churches, a female seminary,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Reno Brewing Company, Inc.
  Reno, Nevada
  
  Found at The Way It Was Museum, Virginia City, Nevada
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  Center Street, Reno, Nevada
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  Virginia Street, Looking North
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•  1902 - SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN DERAILED AT RENO
  Reno, Nev, May 21.-The east-bound flyer on the Southern Pacific jumped the frog at Chestnut street crossing in this city. The engine and the baggage and mail cars were derailed. The engine ploughed into the ground, the drivers being covered, and is badly wrecked. Fireman Walker jumped as the engine ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1906
  Reno, a banking post-town, capital of Washoe co., Nev., on the Truckee River and on the Southern Pacific and other railroads, 149 miles NE. of Sacramento, Cal., about 20 miles (direct) NW. of Virginia City, and 3 miles E. of the Sierra Nevada. It has large reduction-works, manufactories of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1910 - Governor Ablaze As Santa. Bystanders’ Promptness Saves Dickerson, of Nevada, at Christmas Tree.
  Special to The Washington Post.
  Reno, Nev. Dec. 27.-Had it not been for prompt action by bystanders, the governor of Nevada would have been one of the victims of the Christmas tree. As it was Gov. Dickerson, in the temporary role of Santa Claus, at Carson City, on Saturday night, was slightly...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1928 - September 13 - KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions
  
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  Reno, The Biggest Little City in the World
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  Cabana Motel
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•  1948 - RENO EXPLOSION KILLS 5, INJURES 137 - PANIC AMONG ONLOOKERS INCREASES TOLL.
  Reno, Aug. 16. (AP) - Fire, a shattering explosion and panic among several hundred spectators left a toll of five dead, one missing and 137 injured in Reno's worst tragedy in its history.
  
  The fire broke out about 10 a.m. yesterday in a false-fronted frame and brick building in the old business...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1953 - September 27 - KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
  
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