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Tahoe Truckee Unified School District is a unified school district based in Truckee, California that educates students in the Truckee and northern Lake Tahoe areas. The district area encompasses 723 square miles, serving Placer County , Nevada County , and El Dorado County .
Monument to the Donner Party in Donner Memorial State Park. The Donner Party ordeal is arguably Truckee's most famous historical event. In 1846, a group of settlers from Illinois, originally known as the Donner-Reed Party but now usually referred to as the Donner Party, became snowbound in early fall as a result of several trail mishaps, poor decision-making, and an early onset of winter that ...
During the 1940s, plans were made to build a school to serve the Lake Tahoe, Truckee and Donner Lake areas of California. The Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District purchased a US$2,000 site next to U.S. Highway 40 (now Interstate 80), choosing Gordon Stafford as the building's architect in April 1949.
High Fives Foundation is a Lake Tahoe-based, national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. [1] Located in Truckee, California, the foundation provides grants for rehabilitation support to athletes with life-altering injuries as a result of mountain sports. It also promotes awareness of injury prevention.
Train bound for Lake Tahoe in Truckee, California. December 19, 1898 – Railway Incorporated; May 1, 1900 – Operations commence between Truckee and Lake Tahoe; October 16, 1925 – Railway leased to Southern Pacific Railroad; May 15, 1926 – Line converted to Standard Gauge by SP; May 1933 – Railway sold to SP; November 10, 1943 – Line ...
Lake Tahoe. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) was formed in 1969 through a bi-state compact between California and Nevada which was ratified by the U.S. Congress. The agency is mandated to protect the environment of the Lake Tahoe basin through land-use regulations and is one of only a few watershed-based regulatory agencies in the United States.
The Tahoe Truckee Area Regional Transit (TART) is the primary provider of mass transportation in the north shore Lake Tahoe region of north central California and northwestern Nevada. [ 5 ] TART is partially funded by RTC Washoe .
North Tahoe High School is a public high school located in the eastern Placer County settlement of Tahoe City, California, on the northern side of Lake Tahoe. It is one of two high schools in Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District ; its counterpart is Truckee High School in nearby Truckee .