Twaddle-Pedroli Ranch Cache Traditional Cache
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Twaddle-Pedroli Ranch Cache
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I love these old buildings and thought they deserved to have a cache to bring others here to share them with. After I placed it, I discovered even more historical information on them online since this has been listed registered on the Register of National Historical Sites. Check out the stone masonry work in the chicken coop and dairy buildings- How did those ranchers get those rocks chiseled to fit together so well with the limited equipment available in the mid-1800s?
Replaced again- 3rd incarnation - slightly different location - hopefully will last this time. Container was filled with good kid loot when replaced - please keep it well-stocked and replace cover tightly.
The Twaddle-Pedroli Ranch, also known as the Jackson-Harp Ranch, Rand Property and the Wilson Commons Ranch, was purchased by John Twaddle in 1869 for $5,000. The ranch, several miles north of Franktown, south of Bowers Mansion, was then known as the Sturtevant Ranch. The property amounted to 630 acres. John Twaddle sold the ranch in 1885 to the brothers Stefano and Anselmo Pedroli for $3,000. The Pedrolis were Swiss born Italian speakers who had worked as cattlemen in the Washoe Valley. After buying out Anselmo, Stefano developed a dairy business, shipping fresh milk and cheese to miners working the Comstock Lode. Pedroli's son, William, took over the ranch on Stefano's death in 1924.
On July 7, 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt visited the ranch while on a walk with her friend Gertrude Pratt, who was passing a period of residency at the nearby Tumbling DW Ranch in order to obtain a divorce.
The Pedroli Ranch passed in 1948 to Harp Brothers, Inc. and was managed by John Jackson. The Willson/Rand family then owned the property from 1956 to 1986. In danger of commercial development, the property was purchased by the Washoe County Parks Department in 1986, under the stipulation that it be known as the Wilson-Commons Ranch., and became a county park. The park comprises only 25 acres with 5 acres comprising the historic core of the ranch.
The structures do not include the main ranch house, which did not retain significant historic integrity and was demolished in 1998. Remaining structures include a horse barn, chicken house, dairy house, bunk house, tack house, and a privy, constructed by the Works Progress Administration in 1938-39 as part of the Nevada Fly-proof Privy Program. Several corrals also remain.
(Thank you Wikipedia...)
The property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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