LAKE TAHOE FACTS & HISTORY
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LAKE TAHOE FACTS & HISTORY |
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History of PineWild Marla Bay is on the southeast shore of Lake Tahoe, extending from Round Hill on the south to Zephyr Cove on the north. Along with 160 acres of land, Marla Bay was pre-empted in 1864 by John Marley for the purpose of farming and ranching. This Englishman's land bore the "distinction" of being listed on the first tax role of Douglas County with a property valuation of $25.00. In 1870, Captain August W. Pray of Glenbrook bought Marley's ranch for back taxes. The bay continued to bear Marley's name, which was shortened to "Marla". Pray felled the choice timber and then sold the land to William McFaul who moved his family from Zephyr Cove in 1884. In 1890, Joe Short of Carson City took over operation of the McFaul Ranch until 1893 when the McFaul's returned to engage in timber brokering and ranching. In 1912, McFaul died and the ranch was sold to a family by the name of Cogel. In 1922 Norman DeVaux, designer and builder with Elbert J. Hall of the Devaux automobile, bought the quarter section surrounding Marla Bay. He build a private lodge on the north slope of Round Mound with bath houses and boat houses for his express cruiser "Myrno III" and a mahogany runabout "Apache II". After the 1929 stock market crash, Arthur K. Bourne of the Singer Sewing Machine family took over DeVaux's property and by 1935 had doubled his holding of Tahoe property. The lodge was operated as a commercial summer resort known as Round Hill Resort, and Bourne built other lakefront homes north of the resort in Marla Bay. In 1969, Kaiser Permanente and Aetna Insurance formed a joint venture as Kaiser-Aetna and acquired the Marla Bay property named "PineWild" from the Bourne family expressly to build a condominium home complex on Lake Tahoe. As the economy changed, Kaiser-Aetna found its interest in real estate waning. A take over deal was negotiated by Chuck Neff and his manufacturing company, Holland Pacific, who completed the building of PineWild.
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