First ‘Talkin’ Tahoe’ event highlights North Tahoe mining boom history

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First ‘Talkin’ Tahoe’ event highlights North Tahoe mining boom history

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – Travel North Tahoe Nevada (TNTNV) hosted its first “Talkin’ Tahoe” event this month in the Duffield Theater at Incline High School. Bill Watson, the Executive Director and Curator of the Thunderbird Lodge, facilitated the “Timber, Tracks and Tributaries” discussion on the history of the flumes, Marlette Water System and railways above Incline Village.  The discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859, a large deposit of silver …