After Ragtown was established, in 1861, the "rival" community of Centerville sprung up one and a half miles to the north, boasting of a hotel and a ranch.

What little history we could uncover:

In early times Centerville, one and a half miles above Ragtown, was a well-known point. Varney & Waters built a hotel there in 1860. Benjamin F. Curler purchased it in 1864, and subsequently sold it to Joseph Scott. Curler is now practising law at Belmont, Nye County. T. Varney was killed in 1862 by Al Millstead, who was hanged at Carson City in 1863. Waters was killed on what is now known as the “Little Adobe” ranch, by a man named Wilson, who was subsequently tried and acquitted. In 1866, James Ferguson owned a ranch near Centerville, and was visited one day by a bad Pah-Ute known as “Buffalo Jim,” who was accompanied by thirteen other Indians. They demanded two sacks of flour, a cow, and some money. Ferguson offered to give them the flour, but refused to give anything else, and a quarrel ensued, upon which they strung him up to a hay press, but cut him down before life was extinct. They also cut open all the baled hay on the premises. For these outrages Ferguson swore that he would kill “Buffalo Jim;” and meeting him out alone, about a year afterwards, he did kill him. He then fled from the country, and at last accounts was living in Missouri. At the time he left Nevada he was the partner of Sheriff Scott.
-History of Nevada 1881

People were so sensitive back then- not like now.

ANOTHER MURDER IN NEVADA TERRITORY
FORT CHURCHILL, OCTOBER 30
A most foul murder was committed last night about 11 o'clock, at the Centerville House, one mile above Ragtown, Carson River. A man by the name of Milstead was using disrespectful language in the house of Varney. Varney politely requested Milstead to show more respect for the ladies of the house, when Milstead drew his pistol and shot Varney dead. Major McDermit, commander at Fort Churchill, has sent two detachments of soldiers in pursuit of the murderer.
-Sacramento Bee, October 30, 1862

Looks like Ferguson got his revenge.

"BUFFALO JIM" KILLED
From a man just in from Stillwater Station on the Humboldt road, we learn that the body of this well known Indian of the Piute tribe has been discovered in the sage brush by the roadside near that station. He had been dead two or three days or more, and was evidently shot off his horse, as there were three bullet holes through him, all ranging upward. He was lying on his face, with his leggings and spurs on, and a six-shooter under him. We shall probably lern more particulars n relation to this matter in a day or two. "Buffalo Jim" is somewhat of a noted Indian, and it is said claims to be the Indian who killed Major Ormsby in the battle near Pyramid Lake in 1860.
-Gold Hill Daily News, July 28, 1865

The Pacific Coast Directory of 1867 lists Benjamin Curler serving as Churchill County District Attorney and living in La Plata. A Death certificate shows him as being born Septemer 27, 1834 in Vermonth, and dying in Reno on August 30, 1919.

JUDGE BENJAMIN CURLER DIES AT HIS RENO HOME
Judge Benjamin Curler. a resident lot Nevada since 1859, and one of the best known men in the state, died Saturday morning at the family home in Reno. He was taken ill Monday. and his death was caused pneumonia.
Coming to Nevada when this. state was still a territory and when it was sparsely populated, Judge Curler, then a young man of twenty-six, entered into the pioneer life of development with vigor that characterized all his activities and it was only a few years until he was considered one of the territory's most active and capable citizens. He settled in Carson first and engaged in building construction. erecting several houses in the then little village. This venture proved successful, but opportunities in Churchill county attracted him and he removed to that county and was elected a member of the third territorial legislature, serving in the house of representatives in 1864, the year that the state constitution was adopted and the state admitted to the Union. Judge Curler was born in Addison county, Vermont. Sept. 27, 1834. He is survived by his wife„one son and two daughters.
-White Pine Nes and Weekly Mining Reniew, September 7, 1919

A mystery waiting to be uncovered. Topozone lists Centerville as a historical locale, but the coordinates it gives are 2.5 miles to the WNW. One and one half miles to the north would put the location at the end of Trento Lane, around where the Sand Hill Dairy sits now.