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This building is the original stone and brick edifice erected on the site of the first recorded claim on what became the Comstock Lode May 1, 1859. One of the earliest hotels it housed miners and notables offering lodging, tavern and barbershop.
Nevada Historical Marker No. 36
Dedicated June 18, 1966 by
E Clampus Vitus[Second Marker:]
First hotel on the Comstock built. 1859. Early transient shelter was taken in dugouts and tents. Some of these were called hotels. Boarding and rooming houses sprang up with population. This is the first edifice known to Nevada, to be worthy the name of hotel.
Gold Hill Landmarks
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Relief of Nevada State Seal
The 1866 State Seal Provision reads, in part:
Foreground, two mountains, at their right base, a quartz mill. On the left, a tunnel penetrating the silver leads, with a miner running out a carload of ore, and a team with ore for the mill.
Immediate foreground, emblems of agriculture, as follows: A plow, sheaf and sickle.
Middle ground, A railroad train passing a gorge and a telegraph line along the rail line.
Extreme background, a range of snowclad mountains, and the sun rising in the east.
The inner circle shall be engraved "All for our Country", our state motto, and thirty-six stars.
Within the outer circle, the words "The Great State of Nevada".
Julia C. Bullette Chapter 1864
E Clampus Vitus
June 28, 1975
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