Early Gardnerville served the farming community and teamsters hauling local produce to booming Bodie (Ca.). The first buildings were a blacksmith shop, a saloon and the Gardnerville Hotel. The latter was moved by Lawrence Gilman in 1879 from the emigrant trail between Genoa and Walley’s Hot Springs, where it was known as Ken House, to its new site, the homestead of John. M. Gardner.

Just as Genoa was the center for British Settlers (mostly Mormon) after 1851, so Gardnerville, after 1879, became the center for the 1870 Danish immigrants. They founded the Valhalla Society in 1885 and met at Valhalla Hall—now gone.

Starting in 1898, Spanish and French Basque shepherds tended some 13,000 sheep in Carson Valley, increasing to 25,000 by 1925, when the Basques began acquiring their own sheep and land. After 1918, several Basques in Gardnerville opened inns which flourished during the Prohibition years.

County: Douglas County
Gardnerville Zip Codes: 89410

Gardnerville Public Schools: Gardnerville is serviced by the Douglas County School System

Elementary School: SCARSELLI ELEMENTARY, PINON HILLS ELEMENTARY, MINDEN ELEMENTARY, JACKS VALLEY ELEMENTARY, GARDNERVILLE ELEMENTARY, EVEN START PROGRAM AND CC MENELEY

Middle School: CARSON VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND AU-WA-LU SCHOOL

High School: DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL

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Gardnerville Population: 20,194
Gardnerville White Population: 18,465
Gardnerville Black Population: 56
Gardnerville Hispanic Population: 1,535
Gardnerville Asian Population: 183
Gardnerville Hawaiian Population: 34
Gardnerville Indian Population: 508
Gardnerville Other Population: 486
Gardnerville Male Population: 10,092
Gardnerville Female Population: 10,102

Gardnerville Average House Value: $162,900.00
Gardnerville Average Household Income: $49,522.00
Gardnerville Average Persons Per Household: 2.59

Gardnerville Median Age: 39.90
Gardnerville Median Age Male: 39.40
Gardnerville Median Age Female: 40.50

Gardnerville Business Establishments: 493
Gardnerville Employees: 3,701
Gardnerville Total Annual Payroll: $93,905,000.00