The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1884 the Glenbrook Mills logged 337 acres on a point on Lake Tahoe. In 1898 Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company (D.L. Bliss) was formed and built 16 miles (26 km) of narrow gauge track into the area that became known as Dollar Point. Southern Pacific leased the track rights in 1925 and converted the tracks to Standard gauge in 1926, bought the property in 1933, and abandoned the tracks in 1943. In 1916 Lora Josephine Knight bought the point. The land was originally part of an area called Chinquapin by the Washoe Indians. Robert Dollar purchased many properties such as the 1,436 acres in Rossmoor, California and in 1927 he purchased the area that had been called "Old Lousy", "the lousy point", and Observatory Point, from Lora Knight. She became well known for building Vikingsholm Castle in 1929. She and her husband were also primary financial backers of Charles Lindbergh's …
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2000
Nothing in Dollar Point is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Dollar Point has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Watson Log Cabin in Sunnyside-Tahoe City, 2.1 miles away.
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.