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Genoa, Nevada

Douglas County · Population 1,279 · Card no. 10730

Nevada's oldest permanent settlement, founded as a Mormon trading post in 1851 at the foot of the Sierra.

The Genoa Bar, open since 1853, calls itself Nevada's oldest thirst parlor.
Snowshoe Thompson carried mail over the Sierra on skis from here for twenty winters.
The town was the first territorial capital.

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