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An experienced Tahoe Incline, NV Realtor will be proud to tell you all about the wondrous area of Lake Tahoe. Tahoe Incline, NV homes for sale are among some of the most beautiful and valuable properties in the nation. The location of Tahoe Incline, NV homes for sale is sheer perfection, with homes nestled among amazing mountains and a stunningly clear body of water.
Ask your Tahoe Incline, NV Realtor about the abundance of activities to enjoy in Lake Tahoe during all four seasons. Lake Tahoe residents and visitors enjoy spectacular weather and are able to enjoy outdoor living at its finest.
The Lake Tahoe basin consists of vegetation dominated by a mixed conifer forest of Jeffrey pine, lodgepole pine, white fir, and red fir. There is also a significant amount of wet meadows and riparian areas, dry meadows, brush fields, and rock outcrop areas within the basin at higher elevations. Local officials are committed to working with Tahoe property owners to preserve the natural beauty of this pristine area.
History of Lake Tahoe
The Lake Tahoe area was first inhabited by the Washoe Native American tribe. The center and heart of Washoe Native American territory, the Lake Tahoe area also included the upper valleys of the Walker, Carson, and Truckee Rivers.
The first explorers and non-indigenous people to come to Lake Tahoe were two men by the name of Lieutenant John C. Fremont and Kit Carson. Embarking on Fremont's second exploratory expedition, the two men first sighted the lake on February 14, 1844, while searching for the Bonaventura River. Lake Tahoe was first visible to the explorers from Red Lake Peak in what is presently known as the Carson Pass. Fremont designated the area as Lake Bonpland, after the French explorer and botanist Aime Jacques Alexandre Bonpland.
Another explorer by the name of John Calhoun Johnson was the first to encounter Meeks Bay in the Lake Tahoe area from a peak above the lake that he called Fallen Leaf Lake, after his Native American guide. Johnson had a government job in the west at that time, carrying mail on snowshoes from Placerville to Nevada City. Subsequently, he named the lake "Lake Bigler" after California's then governor John Bigler. The name for the lake stuck until 1862, when the U.S. Department of the Interior first introduced the name Tahoe. From that point on, both names were used for the lake. Its official and ultimate designation as Tahoe was made in 1945.
Both California and Nevada agreed to partition Lake Tahoe between the two, around the time when California became an official state. The state line ran through the middle of the lake, at 39 degrees north latitude. The state border runs in a southeastern direction, towards the Colorado River.
European civilization in the Lake Tahoe Basin first made its mark with the 1858 discovery of the Comstock Lode, a silver deposit that sits just 15 miles to the east in Virginia City, Nevada. From this point until around 1890, logging in the basin supplied big timbers to shore up the underground workings of the Comstock Lode mines.
The first inclination that Lake Tahoe would eventually serve as a prominent resort area was in 1864, with the founding of the resort community within Virginia City. The public quickly grew fond of the Lake Tahoe basin, and in the years 1912, 1913, and 1918, several congressmen attempted to designate the basin as a national park, but were unsuccessful.
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