Mormon Station State Historic Park stands on the site of a California Trail trading post established by the John Reese party in 1851 as a business venture. Travelers passing through often called Reese’s post “the Mormon Station,” and it is often considered Nevada’s first permanent, non-native settlement. The park preserves the story of 100 years of life in Genoa, from 1851 through the early 1950s, through features including a replica trading post museum, a replica stockade and wagon shed exhibit, a wagon encampment exhibit on California-bound emigrants who stopped there in the 1850s, an accessible 1/2-mile interpretive walking path, a 1908 blacksmith shop, and the Arribalsaga-Campbell House, built in 1948 and restored to reflect the late 1940s to early 1950s. Historic artifacts there include a sharpening stone used for years on Walt Juchzter’s family ranch in Genoa, an early hand-drawn fire hose cart, and Genoa’s first gristmill stone, built by Mr. Knott for John Reese in 1854 and operated by water in Genoa Canyon.