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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BIX_jacobsville_Austin-NV.html
Site of the town of Jacobsville is one-half mile north. Founded on the banks of the Reese River in 1859 by George Washington Jacobs who was the first sheriff of Lander County, farmer and businessman, it was the Overland Stage and Mail station and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BI1_international-hotel_Austin-NV.html
Built of lumber from the first International Hotel constructed in Virginia City. David E. Buel built the hotel after being refused a free lot in Clifton at the mouth of the canyon below. Buel, Frederick Baker, W.C. Harrington and John E. Veatch lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BI0_austin-methodist-church_Austin-NV.html
has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior& Austin Historical Society2003
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHZ_st-georges-episcopal-church_Austin-NV.html
has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior& Austin Historical Society2003
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHY_lander-county-courthouse_Austin-NV.html
has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior& Austin Historical Society2003
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHX_the-surveyors_Austin-NV.html
The Federal Government historically has supported numerous surveys for the purpose of measuring the domain which extended, after 1848, to the Pacific. These surveys sought railway routes, military relationships, water transport and wagon roads. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1677_toquima-cave_Austin-NV.html
East of the summit, north of the highway, and under a basalt flow lies Toquima Cave. Red, white, and yellow aboriginal drawings (pictographs) decorate its walls.
Usually located near springs, as here, and on migratory big game trails, painted o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9HN_hickison-summit_Austin-NV.html
About one mile northwest lies a natural pass between two low buttes which, prehistorically, the aborigines may have used as a site of ambushing migratory deer herds. Three petroglyph panels are located in this pass. Concerted, cooperative efforts …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9HL_reuel-colt-gridley_Austin-NV.html
This simple stone structure, opened to the public in late 1863, was originally operated as a general merchandise store by the firm of Gridley, Hobart and Jacobs. Gridley is best remembered for his 1864 wager which prompted the auctioning of a sack…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9HK_st-augustine_Austin-NV.html
Standing on this prominent hill is St. Augustine, the oldest Catholic Church in Nevada built in 1866 and is known as the mother church that spawned other catholic churches in Nevada. The church was built from the local quarry and brickyard for $50…