05 Nov Fort Churchill and Buckland Station
The U.S. Army established Fort Churchill in July 1860 to protect wagon roads and settlers in the region following the bloody battles that year between settlers and the Native Americans....
Howard Goldbaum Tag
04 Nov Church’s Pond
This small snow-melt basin below Mt. Rose was named for James Church, the University of Nevada Reno professor who in 1909 devised a way to determine the water content of mountain snow....
03 Nov Old Washoe Club
The Washoe Club dates to the early 1860s. It was a high class bar, where a glass of whiskey or a cigar cost twenty-five cents. The furnishings were among the most elegant on the Comstock....
01 Nov Piper’s Opera House
John Piper came to Virginia City in 1860 and opened a bar on this site. In 1867 he bought Maguire’s Opera House, which then burned in 1875. He built this new opera house next to his bar....
31 Oct Artifacts of Old Virginia City
During excavations at the sites of the Boston Bar and Piper's Old Corner Bar, archaeologists recovered many different artifacts of old Virginia City. Here are six of them in virtual reality....
31 Oct Gold Hill Hotel
Proclaiming itself "Nevada's Oldest Hotel, the hostelry dates to the early 1860s and features a great room with hand-sawn ceiling boards....
30 Oct Wells: 2008 Earthquake Damage
On the morning of February 21, 2008, a 6.0 earthquake devastated the town's historic Front Street district. Some twenty buildings were damaged, perhaps beyond repair....
29 Oct New and Old Ruth
In 1902 the discovery of an immense source of copper ore lead to the founding of Ruth. Its mining boom rivaled the bonanzas of precious metals on the western side of the state....
28 Oct Dry Lakes Rock Art Documentation
In October 2006 Nevada Rock Art Foundation volunteers, led by director Alanah Woody, worked to document the rock art sites in the Dry Lakes area northeast of Reno....
28 Oct Sand Mountain
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Located 20 miles east of Fallon, just off U.S. Route 50, the dune is two miles long and rises to 600 feet....
27 Oct St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church in Virginia City was built in 1876 to replace an earlier church that had burned down a year earlier....
27 Oct Winnemucca Hotel
Family-style Basque meals are served daily at the Winnemucca Hotel & Bar, hosted by Michael Lynne Olana in this 2008 photograph....
27 Oct Aspens and Arborglyphs
Our annual hike up the flanks of Mt. Rose on the White's Creek trail opens a magical land of brilliant aspen leaves....
27 Oct Mackay Mansion
Known as the Mackay Mansion, this 1860s era home was actually built for the superintendent of the Gould and Curry Mine. John Mackay later bought the mine and the building....
26 Oct Virginia City Cemetery
The Virginal City cemetery of today appears nothing like it did during the bonanza years of the Comstock. It was once a lush parkland, composed of more than a dozen different burial grounds....
26 Oct Lake Lahontan Petroglyphs
The calcium carbonate "tufa" visible below the petroglyph is evidence that the level of prehistoric Lake Lahontan was actually above the position of the petroglyphs....
25 Oct Washoe Lake Overlook
There's a cold wind, dusk light, a storm gathering. It's late October atop Slide Mountain looking south over the Washoe Valley....
24 Oct Hidden Cave
At Grimes Point, Hidden Cave was an important seasonal hunting lodge for prehistoric Native Americans who lived off the rich bounty from the lake below, which is now a desert playa....
23 Oct Sutro Tunnel
When gushing hot water threatened the production of the deeper Virginia City mines, Adolph Sutro offered an audacious solution. He would build a tunnel from Dayton up to the Comstock’s mines....
23 Oct Picnic Cave
Located near the petroglyphs of the Grimes Point National Recreational Trail, Picnic Cave’s tufa formations seem similar to the brain coral of an tropical reef....
22 Oct Lamoille Presbyterian Church
Established in 1905, the First Presbyterian Church of Lamoille was in decline thirty years later. By the mid 1950s, attendance dwindling, the Nevada Presbytery dissolved the congregation....
21 Oct Tonopah Mining Park
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The Tonopah Historic Mining Park is located on the site of the original mining claims of 1900 that started the rush to Tonopah....
19 Oct Eureka Sentinel Museum
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The Eureka Sentinel Museum is housed in the 1879 Eureka Sentinel Newspaper Building. This structure was used as the newspaper office from 1879 until 1960....
19 Oct Middlegate Station
In 1859 the overland stage built the first Middlegate Station to provide a rest stop for the passenger and freight lines crossing the area....