Editing Dollar Point, California (section)

==History==
In 1884 the Glenbrook Mills logged 337 acres on a point on Lake Tahoe. In 1898 [[Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company]] (D.L. Bliss) was formed and built {{Convert|16|miles|km}} of narrow gauge track into the area that became known as Dollar Point. [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]] leased the track rights in 1925 and converted the tracks to [[Standard gauge]] in 1926, bought the property in 1933, and abandoned the tracks in 1943. In 1916 [[Lora Josephine Knight]] bought the point. The land was originally part of an area called Chinquapin by the [[Washoe people|Washoe Indians]]. [[Robert Dollar]] purchased many properties such as the 1,436 acres in [[Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, California|Rossmoor, California]] and in 1927 he purchased the area that had been called  "Old Lousy", "the lousy point", and Observatory Point, from Lora Knight. She became well known for building [[Vikingsholm]] Castle in 1929. She and her husband were also primary financial backers of [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic.

Dollar Point is located within the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada Mountain Range]] on the Northwest corner of Lake Tahoe. [[Carnelian Bay, California|Carnelian Bay]] is on the north side, [[Tahoe City, California|Tahoe City]] to the south, and [[Tahoe National Forest]] and [[Burton Creek State Park]] extends along the entire east side. [[California State Route 28|State Route 28]] is the only major highway access to the area and runs the length of the northwest boundary of Dollar Point. Dollar also purchased a react of land to the east of SR 28 that is now called Chinquapin development.<ref name="Dollar Point History">{{cite web | url=http://www.dollarpoint.org/community-info/dollar-point-history/ | title=A Brief History of Dollar Point | publisher=Dollar Point Association | access-date=March 4, 2015}}</ref>