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The historic part of Dayton is within the Comstock Historic District, featuring a small but impressive main street, the monumental Odeon Hall, and a charming local museum located in an 1865 schoolhouse that is the oldest in Nevada in its original location. [4] Dayton claims the designation of Nevada's oldest settlement, a title disputed by the ...
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English: Dayton, one of the earliest settlements in Nevada was first known as a stopping place on the river for California-bound pioneers. Coming in from the desert they rested here before continuing westward.
Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the former mining villages of Virginia City and Gold Hill, both in Storey County, as well as Dayton and Silver City, both to the south in adjacent Lyon County, Nevada, United States. Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961, the district is one of only ...
DaRon Holmes II and seventh-seeded Dayton staged a huge March Madness rally, closing with a 24-4 run to erase a 17-point deficit and beat 10th-seeded Nevada 63-60 in the West Region on Thursday.
James Bilbray – Nevada's first district, U.S. House of Representatives; Emmet D. Boyle – first Nevada-born governor of Nevada; Berkeley L. Bunker (1906–1999) – U.S. senator from Nevada and member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Howard Cannon (1912–2002) – former Democratic U S Senator from Nevada
Photo: Carleton Watkins Gold Hill, Nevada: before 1900 (top) and in 2007. Both photos taken from (roughly) the same viewpoint. An open-pit mine was dug (ramp lower left, bottom photo) after 1900. Gold Hill is an unincorporated community in Storey County, Nevada, located just south and downhill of Virginia City.