Depot Casino, historic Fallon Southern Pacific Depot, converted and expanded for your gaming pleasure. Homestyle cooking in our restaurant. On I-80 exit 48 at Fernley. Follow Highway 50 to Fallon, turn right on Maine Street. Learn the history of Lahontan Valley by viewing exhibits on early pioneers and Native Americans.
Admission is free.
When Mike Fallon built a crossroads store on his ranch property in 1896, the sparsely settled region of the Carson Sink had a nucleus for the first time since Kenyon's trading post at Ragtown, to the west, served the wagon trains. The telephone system is still owned and operated by the County, the only one in the USA still run as a public utility. Sand Mountain, a few miles east of Fallon Creation of the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District by the U.S. Reclamation Service shortly after the turn of the century prompted a tremendous spurt of settlement in the region to be provided with irrigation water, and the tiny settlement at Fallon became the seat of suddenly vigorous Churchill County in 1902. A bank was established in 1908, and Fallon was incorporated. By this time the intensive agricultural development had begun to pay satisfying dividends.