Truckee, CA Townhome for Sale

Before it was a town, Truckee was a pit stop on the Emigrant Trail. Thousands of Californians brought wagons through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the 1840s — the Donner Party, for one — in pursuit of gold and a better life. As more people flocked to the area in the 1860s, a lumber mill and railroad were constructed, and ice harvesting from nearby lakes had taken off. The early 1900s brought film crews from Hollywood, and by 1960, the Olympic games came to Palisades Tahoe Ski Resort. “The town was incorporated in the 1990s,” says Christy Morri ...