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RENO , a city and the county-seat of Washoe county, Nevada, U.S.A., in the W. part of the state, on the Truckee river, and about 244 M. E. of San Francisco. Pop. (1890) 3563; (1900) 4500 (915 foreign-born); (1910 census ) 10,867. It is served by the Southern Pacific, the Virginia & Truckee and the Nevada-California-Oregon
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 4484 ft. above the sea, and is in the most humid district
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machine -shop products, lumber, beer, plaster and packed meats. Farming and stock-raising are carried on extensively in the vicinity. On the site of the present city a road house
accommodation of travellers and freight teams on their way to and from California. By 1863 this place had become known as Lake's Crossing, and five years latei it was chosen as a site for a station by the Central (now the Southern) Pacific railway, then building through the Truckee Valley. The new station was then named Reno, in honour of Gen. Jesse Lee Reno 08231862), a Federal officer during the Civil War, who was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in November 1861 and major-general of volunteers in July 1862, and led the Ninth Corps at South
Mountain
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