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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZU_st-peters-episcopal-church_Carson-City-NV.html
Construction of this graceful reminder of the churches of old New England began in October 1867. Work was completed in July 1868 at a cost of $5,500.
The church was first occupied by its congregation on Sunday, August 9, 1868, with the Reverend…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDSH_gardners-ranch_Carson-City-NV.html
On this site in the period from 1870 until 1918 stood the ornate two-story home of Mathew Culbertson Gardner, rancher and lumberman. The residence was headquarters for Gardner's 300 acre ranch in Meadows to the Southward.
Here was located, 1870…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDSA_charles-w-friend-house-observatory-and-weather-station_Carson-City-NV.html
This is the site of the house and observatory of Nevada's first weatherman, astronomer, and seismologist, Charles William Friend. Born in Prussia in 1835, Friend immigrated by way of South America to California during the 1849 Gold Rush. In 1867, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDS3_carson-city_Carson-City-NV.html
Nevada's State Capital, one of the state's oldest communities, was established in 1851 as Eagle Station, a trading post and ranch on the Carson Branch of the California Immigrant Trail, by Frank and Warren L. Hall, George Follansbee, Joe and Frank…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDRR_kit-carson-1843-44_Carson-City-NV.html
Unveiled June 10, 1989Artist: Buckeye BlakeIt was the winter of 1843-44 when Kit Carson along with the John C. Fremont expedition worked his way south from Pyramid Lake looking for an easy route across the Sierra Nevada. Carson, depicted here trac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDR9_abraham-van-santvoord-curry_Carson-City-NV.html
Abraham Curry, the "Father of Carson City", accomplished more in his 15 year residence than most men hope to in a lifetime. Not only did he purchase the land in 1858 which is now Carson City, but laid out the townsite and built many of its buildin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPM_nevadas-capitol_Carson-City-NV.html
Completed in 1871, Nevada's splendid Victorian Capitol was built of sandstone from the quarry of the town's founder, Abe Curry. The octagon annex was added in 1907, the north and south wings in 1915. Notable features are its Alaskan marble walls, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPG_nevada-state-childrens-home_Carson-City-NV.html
The Nevada Orphan's Asylum, a privately funded institution, was opened in Virginia City May 1867 by Sister Frederica McGrath and two other nuns of the Sisters of Charity. By 1870, most of its functions were taken over by the Nevada Orphans' Home a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPE_historic-flume-and-lumberyard_Carson-City-NV.html
Approximately one-half mile south of this point and west of the present highway lay the immense lumberyard of the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company, the greatest of the Comstock lumbering combines operating in the Lake Tahoe Basin during 187…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDPC_eagle-valley_Carson-City-NV.html
Centrally located between the first Nevada settlement at Genoa and the precious metal deposits of the Comstock Lode, Eagle Valley, site of present Carson City, was a vital link in land communications.
One of the key California emigrant routes, …