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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26JV_douglas-seminary_Carson-City-NV.html
In 1864, the fledgling Nevada State Government was comprised of ten counties with twelve school districts, eight school houses, and eighteen schools. This was a time when no one seriously contemplated making Nevada a permanent home as people follo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W3N_carson-trail-original-mormon-station-historical_Carson-City-NV.html
"At the... foot of the mountains, the Mormons... have established a trading post.... Passing on from this place, as fast as we could,... to save what money we had, we continued up Carson Valley" - Edward Patterson, Jul 11, 1850
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKM_spooner-summit_Carson-City-NV.html
Toll RoadsJohnson's Cutoff, also called the Carson Ridge Emigrant Road, passed over Spooner Summit and down Clear Creek from 1852 through 1854, but was rugged and little used. With discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859, Spooner Summit became a fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME01_old-mormon-station_Carson-City-NV.html
The principle emigrant trail to California's gold fields in the 1850's passed about 50 yards east of here. In June, 1850, Hampton S. Beatie and Abner Blackburn, two Mormons from Salt Lake City, established Nevada's first trading post a few yards f…