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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9JD_eureka-sentinel-newspaper_Eureka-NV.html
When A. Skillman closed the Shermantown Reporter at Hamilton he moved is printing press to Eureka. Together with Dr. L.C. McKenny they started the Sentinel as a weekly paper in July 1870. It became a daily in June 1871 reporting local and internat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9JC_eureka-sentinel-building_Eureka-NV.html
Constructed in 1879 at a cost of $10,000, the Sentinel Building was designed by architect C.M. Bennett. The Eureka Sentinel was published in this building from 1879 to 1960. Three generations of the Skillman family, Archibald, Edward and Willis, e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9HO_eureka-courthouse_Eureka-NV.html
Built in 1879-80, of locally-fired brick and of sandstone quarried nearby, the Eureka County Courthouse remains a fine example of boom town Victorian opulence. This relic, scene of many famous trials, lives on in reflected glory of the days when E…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9HI_austin-churches_Austin-NV.html
St. George's Episcopal Church to the east was consecrated in 1878. The Reverend Blackiston swept the congregation with his enthusiasm and eloquence at Easter Service in 1877 to bring forth pledges including the building, retaining wall, pipe organ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9HG_the-pony-express_Austin-NV.html
The Pony Express Trail passed four miles north of Austin through Jacobsville, Simpson's Park and Dry Creek Station. During the Paiute Indian War the stations were burned and two station tenders at Dry Creek were killed and buried there.
Erecte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9DE_stokes-castle_Austin-NV.html
Started in the fall of 1896 and completed in June, 1897, by Ansom Phelps Stokes, mine developer, railroad magnate and member of a prominent eastern family, as a summer home for his sons, principally J.G. Phelps. After the castle (or the tower, as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9DD_austin_Austin-NV.html
Austin, mother town of mining camps, sprang into being after William Talcott discovered silver at this spot on May 2, 1862. Talcott came from Jacobsville, a stage stop six miles to the west on the Reese River, the first Lander County seat. He was …