Lamance Administrative Site
The Lamance Administrative Site has been the location of three separate facilities between 1914 and 1956.
The Lamance Administrative Site has been the location of three separate facilities between 1914 and 1956.
The Lamance Ranger Station began construction in 1914, with a house completed during the end summer and a barn around October. During the next decade, a stone cellar, woodshed, and tool shed were also built. In 1929 (by which time the house had also been expanded to nearly double its original size), when the district headquarters were moved to Paradise Valley, the Lamance Ranger Station was decommissioned and the buildings were sold off, save for the tool shed and stone cellar that remain today.
The Lamance Experiment Station was established May 4, 1937 as an Intermountain Forest & Range Experiment Station with the intent to conduct experiments on range grasses for cattle feed. The CCC began construction on a house and garage that summer, which were completed in September; in addition, the grounds were to be extensively landscaped. By 1953, the site was declared as excess property, and in 1956 the buildings were removed to Reno and the location abandoned.
The Lamance Powder House was erected in 1939 by a CCC Crew led by Virgil Pasquale. It was used to store explosives during construction of the Hinckey Summit road.
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