MORMON STATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN JUNE 1849 BY HAMPDEN S. BEATTIE, WHO BUILT HERE THE FIRST HOUSE IN NEVADA. IN JULY 1850 COL JOHN REESE, HIS BROTHER ENOCH STEPHEN A. KINSEY, AND OTHERS, ESTABLISHED HERE REESE'S STATION, FIRST ANGLO SAXON SETTLEMENT IN NEVADA (THEN UTAH). A STOCKADE COSTING $2,000 WAS BUILT. IN 1855 ORSON HYDE, JUDGE GEORGE P. STILES, U.S. MARSHALL JOSEPH L. HEYWOOD, AND OTHER MORMON PIONEERS COLONIZED CARSON VALLEY, ORGANIZING CARSON COUNTY WHICH HAD BEEN CREATED BY THE UTAH LEGISLATURE IN 1854. OPSON HYDE RENAMED THE PLACE GENOA AETER THE BIRTH PLACE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
