Minden, Nevada
Population: 12,080
Located in Douglas County
Minden, the seat of Douglas county since 1916, was named for a town in Westphalia, Germany, where the founder of the H.F. Dangberg Land and Live Stock Company was born in 1829. The company established Minden in 1905 to provide terminal facilities for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, which was then extending a branch line southward from Carson City. Principal promoter of the town and its related development was H.F. Dangberg, Jr., secretary of the company and son of the founder. Minden, located in the Carson Valley is one of the earliest-settled, richest, and most productive of the state's agricultural regions. In spring, summer, and autumn, when the valley is bursting with life, the vast irrigated tracts are a green velvet patchwork quilt upon which the stacks of baled hay stand like giant cheeses, and cottonwoods and poplars rise up like flashing green flames. The meadows are sopped with water from the Sierra, fat and languid cattle browse placidly everywhere. Two near neighbors along the east side of Main Street epitomize the changes that have transformed Minden and Gardnerville over the past generation. Bently Nevada supplies the world market with vibration monitoring equipment from its headquarters in the old Minden Creamery. In 1964, Bently was the first high-profile, high-tech company to relocate from California to Nevada. A slow migration of these companies continues, as at the same time Tahoe casino workers, unable to afford life at the Lake, have spilled down the Kingsbury Grade to buy houses in the Gardnerville Ranchos. These new populations of well-paid, well-educated people have remade the character of the Carson Valley. The transformation is typified by the Carson Valley Inn a short distance away, a modern new hotel, with highly manicured casino, meeting rooms and gourmet restaurant. Courtesy of the Carson Valley Chamber of Commerce Find homes for sale in Minden Nevada
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