Check out history of working barns in historical society's annual fundraiser

GARDNERVILLE, Nev.

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The Douglas County Historical Society's Great Barns of Carson Valley tour is 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Tickets are $25 for nonmembers and $20 for Douglas County Historical Society members. Ticket price includes tours of historic timber-framed barns and free admission to the Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center in Gardnerville and Genoa Courthouse Museum. Complimentary ice cream sundaes are served after the tour until 4 p.m. at the Gardnerville museum. Ice cream has been donated by Tahoe Creamery.

Tickets for tours of the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park are available for $5 per person and must purchased in advance. Purchase tickets on the day of the tour at the Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center, 1477 Highway 395 in Gardnerville, which will be open at 8 a.m. Saturday. Information, 782-2555.

The Douglas County Historical Society features the Great Barns of Carson Valley tour to show the importance of preserving historic structures as part of National Historic Preservation Month in May. Funds from the barn tour benefit the Genoa Courthouse Museum and the Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center in Gardnerville.

Tickets must be purchased in advance to attend tours. On the tour are historic and working barns at Mack Land & Cattle, Dangberg Home Ranch, and the Stodieck, Henningsen, Hietman-Brunelle and Lampe-Jacobs barns.