History
Update via Comstock Foundation for History and Culture On March 11, the Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) section of the Nevada Division of Minerals (NDOM) toured the historic Donovan Mill in Silver City, NV as part of a NDOM training event. Approximately 40 participants from across the United States attended the
Dayton
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
Dayton
The Odeon Saloon hosted another memorable afternoon of history and storytelling as the Odeon Oldies Lecture Series welcomed Chautauquan Kim Harris for a powerful living‑history presentation portraying Velma Bronn Johnston, better known as “Wild Horse Annie". Held upstairs at the historic Odeon, the lecture drew an audience of
Dayton
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
Tours/Events
Celebrating a timeless American legacy and joining the America 250 Anniversary
Arts & Culture
The historic Comstock landmark celebrates 150 years of art, history and community on March 16.
History
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
Dayton
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
Virginia City
If you have spent any amount of time in Virginia City, or around people who have, you have likely heard the question. It is usually asked with a grin, sometimes with a nudge, and almost always by someone who already knows exactly where the conversation is headed. “So… did you
Dayton
The Sunday, Feb. 22 Odeon Oldies talk at the Historic Odeon Saloon in Dayton was one for the books, thanks to Audie Robinson, Senior Warden of Amity Lodge No. 4 F. & A.M. and State Records Manager at the Nevada State Archives. Robinson delivered a lively, heartfelt, and deeply
Silver City
Before Nevada existed as a state, Freemasonry was already here. As mining camps spread across the Great Basin in the mid-nineteenth century, Masonic lodges formed alongside them, often among the first stable institutions in places defined by uncertainty. Long before courthouses were built or municipal governments fully organized, lodges provided
Dayton
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