Family:Isaiah Smelser and Eliza Powers (4)

http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/shpo/markers/mark_256.htm Roadside Stations and Ranches 1850s-1900s

This marker is located at the Peavine Ranch, an overnight stop for the travelers along the road from the Truckee River to ranches near Honey Lake. The ranch advertised a well-stocked table and bar and first class beds. Purchased in 1862 by Fielding Lemmon, it was initially part of real estate and mining promotion as platted on this 1867 map, but Peavine grew instead into a prosperous livestock operation. Several other ranches were located along the road, yet, for nearly a hundred years regional growth centered around downtown Reno and Sparks. Over time, most of the ranches and stage stops were replaced by small isolated communities, then larder communities, and eventually suburbs.

http://www.risposteatutto.com/hotels/388300c-38-peavine.html Fielding Lemmon tried to establish a town called Peavine City on his ranch and ran a station called the Peavine Hotel to accommodate the activity.

http://www.risposteatutto.com/hotels/388300c-38-peavine.html Peavine Ranch The property at 11220 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, represents the last remains of a once vast ranch, known as Peavine Ranch, developed by cattle rancher Fielding Lemmon. It was then owned by Henry Anderson who made a name in the sheep business, and whose son subdivided the majority of the ranch's acreage, and finally owned by Charles and Rosemarie Hixson has lived alone on her 26.9 acre ranch since the death of her husband in 1978. Besides a few modern outbuildings, Mrs. Hixson's property includes five historic buildings associated with the two earlier ranching periods. The buildings include the residence, a cottage with an attached stone cool house, a blacksmith shop, a summer kitchen, and the turbine house.

NEVADA PLACE NAMES: A GEOGRAPHICAL http://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=fielding+lemmon+peavine&source=web&ots=KOAuVmb1ub&sig=djbUKqFPZMB1IXjenBB2rVtFRBo&hl=en Page 154 LEMMON VALLEY (Washoe) The valley, north of Reno and northeast of Peavine Mountain, and the site of Stead Air Force Base (phased out in 1965), was named for the Fielding Lemmon family, who had a ranch there. In 1861, Mr. Lemmon's ranch was an overnight stopping place for teamsters and travelers. He apparently was a member of the first convention called to frame a state constitution in 1863.

1.   Gold Hill News. (Nov. 4, 1863).