Von Schmidt Line

090519-SierraStories 1872-Von-Schmidt-Border-Marker-East-of-Brockway-Sierra-Stories Courtesy Nevada Historical Society At Lake Tahoe Marker near Brockaway, 1872, courtesy Nevada Historical Society Map by Donald Pisani California Historical Quarterly found with the help of Mark McLaughlin Von Schmidt's insidious plan to take Tahoe water from the Lake to San Francisco Alexis von Schmidt Dam on the Truckee River at Lake Tahoe, circa 1890s His dam on the Truckee, circa 1890 Vno SChmidt LIne Looking at the Von Schmidt line (in red) and the present border (in green) travelling north from Clark County