For over a century the crossing of the Truckee River at the approximate location of the Virginia Street Bridge had always been attributed to Myron Lake back in 1861.  Tucked away in the archives of Lassen County, would require the earliest history of Reno to be revised.

In the fall of 1859, Charles William Fuller built a toll bridge and small hotel at the approximate sight of today’s Virginia Street’s bridge in what would become the nucleus of Reno. Fuller saw the opportunity as the farmers/ranchers of Honey Lake & Sierra Valleys were eager to feed the miners of the newly discovered Comstock.  On September 28, 1861, Fuller traded this property for a ranch in the Honey Lake Valley  with Myron Lake. In 1868, Fuller filed for bankruptcy. In Schedule A of that proceeding provided all his activities until that time. The trading of the property is recorded in Book A, Page 27, Deeds of Lassen County.

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