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One of my favorite times of the year is the Spring season, when Dayton Elementary Schools' Fourth Graders learn Nevada history firsthand by participating in a walking tour around Old Town and inside many of our historic buildings. They also get to learn how the local criminal justice system
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The Kiwanis Club of Dayton Township visited the Dayton Museum on Sunday, April 13, with docent Pat Neylan providing the tour. It appeared the group enjoyed the many antique exhibits with the Native American local history, mining and milling and enlarged old photos catching their eye. Besides showing the Museum,
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Around the turn of the 19th Century, 26 of 27 ranches on the Carson River between Dayton and Weeks (south of Silver Springs) were owned by Italians. Many of these hardworking immigrants had first been attracted to the silver and gold strikes and settled in the upper Comstock towns of
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Members of the Historical Society of Dayton Valley (HSDV) are counting their lucky stars thanks to Stan Paher who just donated $40,000 to help with the reconstruction of Dayton’s historic Carson and Colorado Railroad Depot that burned at the hands of an arsonist in 2020. Stan is a
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Nevada’s first historian, Laura Ellis Dettenreider, moved to Dayton in 1853 with her husband, James Ellis and two sons, William and Daniel (children from her first marriage to William Naileigh). She kept a daily journal of life in the tiny mining settlement of Dayton, where Nevada’s first gold
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According to local television reports, locals around this end of Nevada used St. Patrick’s Day to break loose from the Covid quarantine, and with Governor Sisolak relaxing the regulations, people celebrated, indicating they were ready to get on with their lives. Restaurants and bars around Old Town Dayton were
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Thanks to docents Vicki Kinney, Larry Tuttle and Julie Workman, the Dayton Museum on Shady Lane in Old Town Dayton is honoring “Dayton Women in History,” this Women’s History Month. Throughout March, photographs and names of local women dating back to the early 1850s and into the 21st Century
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The Dayton Museum on Shady Lane in Old Town Dayton has been closed since Thanksgiving week for the winter and is now preparing to reopen the first Sunday in March. One of the first historic preservation projects for Dayton and the Historical Society of Dayton Valley (HSDV), the museum first
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It is time to provide the life story of Ruby McFarland, one of Dayton's longtime residents, an active member of the Historical Society of Dayton Valley, and the lead docent at the Dayton Museum for years. Sadly, Ruby passed away at the age of 97 at the VA
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As many Dayton people know, one of our most revered Dayton, Nevada Italian natives, Joe Sbragia, passed on during heart surgery at Stanford on Nov. 1, 2025. Word of Joe’s untimely death spread fast; Stony and I got word from Danny Howard, another Dayton native who lives in Maui.
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Nevada’s first dance was held at Spafford Hall’s in Dayton to ring in 1854.
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On Saturday evening, Dec. 13, more than 60 members of the Historical Society of Dayton Valley gathered at the Dayton Community Center to celebrate another successful year of preserving Dayton’s 176-year old history. Thanks to Vicki Kinney and Margie Sidener for chairing the event. Their efforts made the historic