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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OJK_the-united-states-mint-at-carson-city-nevada_Carson-City-NV.html
The original Carson City building is a formal balanced, sandstone block edifice, two stories high with a centrally located, cupola. The sandstone blocks were quarried at the Nevada State prison.On March 3, 1862, Congress passed a bill establishing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BJZ_corbett-fitzsimmons-fight_Carson-City-NV.html
On March 17, 1897, at an arena located on this site, Carson City played host to Nevada's first world championship prizefight, a fourteen-round thriller in which the reigning heavyweight titlist, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, was dethroned by R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM119I_empire-and-the-carson-river-mills_Carson-City-NV.html
When the Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859, the problem of reducing the ore from the fabulously rich Virginia City mines had to be solved. Mills were built in Gold Canyon and Six Mile Canyon. In Washoe Valley, at Dayton, and on the Carson River…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF8M_st-charles-hotel_Carson-City-NV.html
One of the oldest continuously operating hotels in the state. It is composed of two hotels. The three story St. Charles and the two story Muller House next door south. Construction of both buildings took place in 1862 with completion in August of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF8L_carson-city_Carson-City-NV.html
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Dedicated April 12, 1996Carson CityOriginal StationApr. 3, 1860 - Nov. 20, 1861byByron L. & Peggy Clark & FamilyBob & Tina McFaddenMae & Jim ThorpeThe Bike SmithBetty Young & Erica YoungPony Express Trail Association[Sponsors…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME32_nevada-viet-nam-memorial_Carson-City-NV.html
In memory of our Brothers who Never Returned FromRepublic of VietNam 1954 - 1975POW - MIA[Column 1:]Perry Richard Clark - LDCR - Navy - Carlin - 31 Aug. 1967 · Whittemore Frederick H. - CDR - Navy - Carson City 11 Apr. 1968 · Bower J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME2S_isaac-evan-james_Carson-City-NV.html
In March 1868 William Sharon of the Bank of California contracted with Isaac Evan James to construct a railroad from the mines of the Comstock Lode to the stamp mills located on the Carson River. Survey work got underway in December and grading be…
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…