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1906: Town founded on land owned by H. F. Dangberg Jr., as the last stop on the line for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. The daily train leaves Reno at 8:30 a.m., arriving in Minden at 10:30 a.m.
1907: Minden flour mill opens next to the railroad tracks.
1908: Minden creamery opens.
1909 (Oct. 20): The Carson Valley Farmers Bank Opens.
1912: The Carson Valley Improvement Club, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places, opens for dances and other town activities.
1912 (May): The C.O.D. Motor company opens. It remains in operation as one of the country's oldest family owned car dealerships.
1916: Douglas County seat moved from Genoa to Minden.
1917 (June 11): Grand opening of the Minden Inn.
1920: Businessmen from the Minden Commercial Club act as a town governing board.
1961: Don Bently moves from Berkeley, California and starts Bently Nevada, a world wide engineering company.
1966: U.S. 395 made a four-lane highway through town.
1969: Bently, Nevada acquires the creamery and the flour mill for corporate offices.
1975: New Douglas High School opens in Minden.
1979: Douglas County gives Minden legal status under the state's unincorporated town law.
1984 (Aug. 10): Carson Valley Inn and Casino Opens
1993 (Oct.): Douglas County acquires the Minden Inn for government offices.
FACTS ABOUT MINDEN
from Stories From the Sagebrush by Don Cox
The population in 1998 was 6,533 the projected population in 2003 is 7,425.
The Median income in Minden is $41,680.
The total retail sales is $38,261 million.
Minden's claim to fame is the fact that it is a planned community, surveyed and laid out before the first residents arrived.
Minden got its name from H.F. Dangberg Jr., who named it Minden after his family's home in Germany.
Minden's local legend is H.F. Dangberg who created the town in 1906 as a stop for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, which he used to ship beef, grain and wool from his Dangberg Land & Livestock Co. in the Carson Valley.
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