The new county seat attracted lawyers, doctors, and dentists, among others. The streets were lined with restaurants, stores, saloons, livery stables, drugstores, bath houses and shaving emporiums. The Washoe City post office opened in July 1862, closed in October 1888, reopened in November 1888 until December 1894. In October 1862, the Washoe Times printed its first newspaper. Later, a school, churches, a hospital, and a courthouse and jail were built.

By 1865, Washoe City had a fluctuating permanent and transient population that may