Incline Village - That's Me!

Elevation is 6420 feet.
I'm located on the northern shore of beautiful Lake Tahoe.

History of ME

I am steeped in history dating back to the early and mid 1800’s. Lake Tahoe’s first real residents were the Washoe and Paiute Indian Tribes. John C. Fremont was the first European explorer to record the sighting of Lake Tahoe, in Feb. 1844. His exploration party was guided by the legendary Kit Carson. As more and more settlers moved west there started to be small communities popping up along it’s shores. During the mid 1800’s Incline Village really started to grow. It was an excellent source of lumber needed in Washoe Valley & Virginia City. Lake Tahoe became a bustling center of commerce in the 1860s during the height of silver mining in Virginia City. The Central Pacific Railroad extended to Truckee.
In the summer of 1873, Walter Scott Hobert had established the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Co. In September 1880 and by October, he had completed a stream-powered sawmill half a mile from the lake in the area known now as Millcreek. I came by my name, Incline Village, from the Nevada mining days. The logs they hauled out were carried vertically nearly 1400 feet to a V flume. In 1884, I received my own official zip code and was finally placed on the map. But by the fall of 1897, the logging was all done and my land was left in a state of immediate disrepair. It wasn’t until the 1930’s when people started building summer homes and traveling the one lane road into my area.
The Ta-Neva-Ho (now the Cal-Neva) Crystal Bay's first casino, was built in 1927 by developer Bob Sherman. In 1946 Joseph Blumenfeld built the Tahoe Biltmore Hotel. In the 1960's, Ray Plunkett, along with Harold Tiller, Arthur Wood and Matt McCoskey, principal owner of the Cal-Neva, took over ownership when current owner Frank Sinatra lost his gaming license because of a mob connection.
In the 1930s, Captain George Whittell saw an opportunity and bought all the land, sum 44,000 acres of Nevada shoreline ensured that Tahoe's north shore would not become a commercial wasteland. Whittell built a stone castle on the shores near Sand Harbor that can still be seen today.
In the 1950’s, the Crystal Bay Development Company approached Captain Whittell offering to purchase the 9,000 acres to build a planned community.  In the 1960’s and after the successful 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, construction began in my area. Roads were built, a ski area was designed, beaches were developed, and a golf course was being planned. Construction boomed in the area and custom homes and condominiums were being built along Lakeshore Boulevard. In an effort to keep the history of the early logging days, Crystal Bay Development officially named my new community “Incline Village”. In the late 1960’s, a high school was built and the community was on its way.  Around 1976, I became a year-round residential community.

"I have never let my schooling
interfere with my education."